Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Phenomenology of spirit, the science of the experience of consciousness
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in 1770 in Stuttgart to a treasury official. From 1788 to 1793 he studied at the Tübingen Theological Seminary. His classmates and friends were Hölderlin and Schelling, the future poet and philosopher. Hegel preferred to work as a private tutor first in Bern, then in Frankfurt, to a spiritual career. In 1801, Hegel came to Jena, defended his dissertation “On the Orbits of the Planets” for the title of Privatdozent and began lecturing at the university. The professorial chair at the University of Jena was occupied at that time by Schelling, with whom Hegel actively collaborated on the jointly published “Critical Journal of Philosophy” and was clearly influenced by whose transcendental philosophy he was in the first years of his stay at the university.