HEGEL (2)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher, who held that what was truly real in the world was mind or spirit, not material things. Hegel argued that history showed a gradual unfolding of this mind. In 1801 he wrote a dissertation in which h e asserted some numerological accounts of the distances and number of the planets. —SHSBC Binder 4 Approved Glossary