Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishHegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHe‧gel, Ge‧org Wil‧helm Fried‧rich /ˈheɪɡəl, ˈɡeɪɔːɡ ˈvɪlhelm ˈfriːdrɪk, -ɪx $ -ɔːrɡ-/ (1770–1831) a German philosopher who had great influence on European and US philosophy with books such as The Phenomenology of the Mind → see also dialectic