Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating from the University of Tübingen, he joined one of the most illustrious philosophy departments of the time, at the University of Jena, Germany, which included, besides
Fichte and Schelling, the great writer, philosopher, and critic Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829), who helped originate the German Romantic movement, and one of the leading playwrights of the time, idealist philosopher Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). During the French occupation by Napoleon, Hegel was removed from his position as professor and moved to Bamberg, where he worked as a newspaper editor and then a school principal in Nuremberg. Eventually, in 1816, he returned to being a professor of philosophy,
in Heidelberg; two years later he transferred to the university in Berlin and remained there for the rest of his life.
