See Also: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich(dictionary)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich(encyclopedia)
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von(encyclopedia)
Paeonia(encyclopedia)
Ohm, Georg(medicine)
Stiernhielm, Georg(encyclopedia)
Ziehen, Georg(medicine)
Maurer, Georg(medicine)
Meier, Georg(medicine)
Ohm, Georg Simon(encyclopedia)

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (sh) and Paeonia (sh)


Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (sh)




born Aug. 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg
died Nov. 14, 1831, Berlin

German philosopher.

After working as a tutor, he was headmaster of the gymnasium at Nurnberg (1808-16); he then taught principally at the University of Berlin (1818-31). His work, following on that of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and F.W. Schelling, marks the pinnacle of post-Kantian German idealism. Inspired by Christian insights and possessing a fantastic fund of concrete knowledge, Hegel found a place for everything
logical, natural, human, and divine
in a dialectical scheme that repeatedly swung from thesis to antithesis and back again to a higher and richer synthesis. His panoramic system engaged philosophy in the consideration of all the problems of history and culture, none of which could any longer be deemed foreign to its competence. At the same time, it deprived all the implicated elements and problems of their autonomy, reducing them to symbolic manifestations of the one process, that of the Absolute Spirit's quest for and conquest of its own self. His influence has been as fertile in the critical reactions he precipitated as in his positive impact. His principal works are Phenomenology of Mind (1807), Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817), and Philosophy of Right (1821). He is regarded as the last of the great philosophical system builders. See also Hegelianism.


Paeonia (sh)




Ancient land, in what is now northern Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, and western Bulgaria.

Paeonia originally included the whole Vardar River valley. The Paeonians were weakened by the Persian invasion of 490 BC, and the tribes living along the Strymon River fell under Thracian control. The growth of ancient Macedonia forced the remaining tribes north, and they were defeated by Philip II in 358 BC. It became part of the Roman province of Macedonia; by AD 400 the Paeonians had lost their identity and Paeonia was merely a geographic term.