Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a prominent German thinker. He is responsible for one of the philosophical systems that had the most influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in Stuttgart in 1770, studied philosophy and theology at Tubingen University and trained at an intellectual level, dominated by the conceptions expressed by Immanuel Kant, who had denied the theoretical validity of metaphysics. Hegel, who appreciated idealism, said that there was an absolute idea evolved in a dialectic between a thesis and an antithesis, exceeding both in what he called synthesis. For him, the story was set in the same way that the absolute idea. He married Marie von Tucher, who bore him two sons, and taught at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. Sick of cholera, died in Berlin in 1831.
Among his productions include The Phenomenology of Mind, the Science of Logic and Philosophy of law.
The disciples of Hegel, which were characterized as Hegelian right, argued that the system of his master was appropriate for the absolutist conceptions of post-Napoleonic restoration. In opposition to them lined the Young Hegelians, or Hegelian left, who reinterpreted Hegel's thought in his revolutionary sense. Among the latter, Karl Marx was the one who had the greatest influence.