Family Name: Hegel
First Name: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Birth Date: Sun, Aug 26, 1770
Birth Place: Stuttgart
Death Date: Sun, Nov 13, 1831
Death Place: Berlin
Main places of activity:
Place From To
Jena 1799 1805
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Nuremberg 1807 1815
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Berlin 1817 1830
Personal info:
Education

At school, Hegel received an education that was both steeped in the classics and inspired by the Enlightenment. Subsequently, he was trained to be a theologian in the Tübinger Stift. Hegel knew Greek, Latin and French extremely well. His English was good and he had some Italian.
Career

Hegel moved many times, spending his youth in Stuttgart and his student  years in Tübingen. He worked as a house tutor in Berne (1793-96) and Frankfurt (1797-1800) before lecturing at Jena for several years. In 1807-08, he edited the Bamberger Zeitung before moving to Nuremberg to become rector of the Gymnasium. Here, he taught for several years and married Marie von Tucher in 1811. Hegel gained a professorship at the University of Heidelberg in 1816 before moving to Berlin two years later, where he reached the height of his career.
Financial Situation

Hegel's career path was winding and his financial situation oftentimes precarious. Wishing for a fixed academic appointment for a long time, he only succeeded to secure it at the age of 46. (In Jena, he had lectured without receiving a fixed salary.)
Translations Other Works

translations activities

The philosopher GWF Hegel is not usually recognised as a translator. His very first (anonymous) publication, however, was a heavily edited translation from the French.

secondary bibliography references

Biography:

Karl Rosenkranz, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Leben (Berlin, 1844).

Terry Pinkard, Hegel. A Biography (Cambridge, 2000).

H.S. Harris, Hegel's Development, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1971 & 1983)


A critical edition of Hegel's translation of Cart's Letters is available in:

GWF Hegel, Frühe Schriften II, ed. W. Jaeschke (Hamburg, 2014).


For further references, see Walter Jaeschke, Hegel-Handbuch. Leben - Werk - Schule (Hamburg, 2010, 2nd ed.).

Translations

  • Lettres de Jean-Jacques Cart à Bernard Demuralt, trésorier du Pays de Vaud, Sur le droit public de ce Pays, et sur les événements actuels

  • Translation Title: Vertrauliche Briefe über das vormalige staatsrechtliche Verhältniß des Waadtlandes (Pays de Vaud) zur Stadt Bern. Eine völlige Aufdeckung der ehemaligen Oligarchie des Standes Bern. Aus dem Französischen eines verstorbenen Schweizers übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen
  • Original Author: Jean-Jacques Cart
  • Original title: Lettres de Jean-Jacques Cart à Bernard Demuralt, trésorier du Pays de Vaud, Sur le droit public de ce Pays, et sur les événements actuels
  • Publ. Year From: 1792 to:
  • lang: French
  • Note:

    In this work, the author harshly criticizes Bernese rule over the Vaud. Published in France, it was banned in Switzerland.
  • Translation: Vertrauliche Briefe über das vormalige staatsrechtliche Verhältniß des Waadtlandes (Pays de Vaud) zur Stadt Bern. Eine völlige Aufdeckung der ehemaligen Oligarchie des Standes Bern. Aus dem Französischen eines verstorbenen Schweizers übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen
  • Publisher: Jäger
  • Pub. Place: Frankfurt
  • Pub. Date: 1797
  • Note:

    The subtitle Hegel chose is especially revealing: A Complete Disclosure of the Former Oligarchy of Berne. Hegel took precaution by publishing anonymously and declaring the original author dead, when in fact he was to live until 1813.

    Hegel took considerable liberty in editing Cart's Letters, not only tranlsating and annotating them, but even ommitting letters 8 and 9.



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