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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.
While working as a private tutor in Berne, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel utilized his access to a library to study a variety of subjects. His reading included Edward Gibbon on the fall of the Roman Empire, Charles Louis, baron de Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws, and various Greek and Roman classics.1
Additionally, Hegel studied the works of the critical philosopher Immanuel Kant. Stimulated by Kant’s writings on religion, Hegel applied a historical lens to these ideas, composing essays that reinterpreted the Gospel and examined the historical development of Christianity as an authoritarian institution.1