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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, engraving by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling after a lithograph by Julius Ludwig Sebbers, c. 1828; in the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Germany.
In 1831, when cholera reached Germany, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and his family initially retreated to the suburbs to avoid the outbreak. After returning to Berlin for the winter session, Hegel fell ill and died on November 14, 1831, following only one day of illness. He was buried in Berlin, as he had requested, between the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Karl Solger.1