Biography — Hegel: A
Before securing his place in academia, Hegel spent years as a private tutor in Bern and Frankfurt.
: At the University of Tübingen, he shared a dormitory with future luminaries Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich von Schelling. This "greatest college dormitory in philosophical history" shaped his early engagement with the French Revolution and the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. II. The Journey to the "Phenomenology" Hegel: A Biography
: He began school at age three, studying Latin by five and attending the Stuttgart Gymnasium from ages seven to eighteen. Before securing his place in academia, Hegel spent

