Hegel

GEORG WILHELM FRIED RICH, (ha'gail,) a German metaphysician, B. at Stuttgart, 1770, became in 1801 a lecturer in Jena University; in 1816 entered upon the profe orship of philosophy at Heidelberg, and 2 years later, filled a similar chair at Berlin. D. 1831. The Hegelian system of philosophy is looked upon as an attempt to combine the real and the ideal, and, though perhaps but imperfectly understood so far,it is accounted in Germany as forming, or rather a ociating together, the salient doctrines of the Pantheistic School. [s. 446]