Full Name: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nickname: The old Man, Friedrich Hegel

Father: Georg Ludwig Hegel ( d. 1799)
Mother: Maria Magdalena Louisa Fromm (d. 1781)
Girlfriend: Christiane Charlotte Burkhardt
Wife: Marie von Tucher
Son: Fischer (1807), Karl (1813), Immanuel (1814)

Date of Birth: August 27, 1770
Birth Place: Stuttgart, Germany

Date of Death: November 14, 1831 (aged 61)
Death Place: Berlin, Germany
Cause of Death: Illness
Remains: Buried, Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof, Berlin, Germany

Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Philosopher, Sociologist
Nationality: Germany

Main Interests: Logic, Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy of history Metaphysics, Epistemology Political philosophy.

Notable Ideas: Absolute idealism, Dialectic Sublation, Master/slave.

Influenced By: Aristotle, Plato, Heraclitus, Neoplatonism, Anselm, Descartes, Goethe, Spinoza, Leibniz, Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Fichte, Giambattista Vico, Friedrich Hölderlin, Schelling.

Major Writing: The Phenomenology of the Mind (1806), Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), The Science of Logic (1812), Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820), Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, The Philosophy of Right (1821).

A major figure in German Idealism, philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was one of the most influential western philosophers of the 19th century. He kept contributions to the understanding of history, law, logic, art, religion, and philosophy. Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers T. H. Green, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Karl Marx, Engels, Lev Vygotsky, F. H. Bradley, William James, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Herbart, Ludwig Feuerbach etc.
Childhood & Early Life: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart in the Duchy Württemberg in southwestern Germany. His father, Georg Ludwig was secretary to the revenue office and his mother was Maria Magdalena Louisa Fromm. At age three Hegel went to the German School. Then entered the Latin School when he was five but he has already known the first declension by his mother. He loved wine and company, and want to be a secular writer Jean Jacques Rousseau. He completed his theological examination in 1793 by studying philosophy for 2 years and theology for 3. When Hegel was 19 the French Revolution began and he professed ardent sympathy for Freedom and Reason with his friend Friedrich Hölderlin.

Personal Life: Hegel had a relationship with his landlady Christiana Burkhardt (who had been abandoned by her husband) and gave birth to their son Georg Ludwig Friedrich Fischer in 1807. In 1811, Hegel married Marie Helena Susanna von Tucher (1791–1855), the eldest daughter of a Senator. She gave birth to a daughter (b. 1812, died soon after birth) and two sons Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1813–1901) and Immanuel Thomas Christian (1814–1891).
Later Life & Death: In January 1799 Hegel's father died. Hegel had been appointed to an extraordinary professorship at Jena, but the Napoleonic victory there (1806) closed the University and became editor of a Bamburg newspaper. Between 1808 to 1816, he had a master of a Nuremberg school. His other great work The Science of Logic (1812, 1816)was published. In 1816, he moved to Erlangen, Berlin after getting offers of a post from the Universities of Erlangen. Hegel published The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817). In 1818 Hegel accepted the renewed offer of the chair of philosophy at the University of Berlin. In 1821, he published his Philosophy of Right. In 1830, Hegel was appointed Rector of the University when he was 60. One year later he died on 14 November. He was buried at Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin, Germany.