Is anyone interested in working on a line of the philosopher Hegel's ancestors.

Question

A number of family trees of descendants of the Hirschmann family of Schorndorf include the philosopher, G. W. F. Hegel, who was recipient of the Gomer-Hirschmann Stipend when he attended Tubingen. Most of these trees rely on Ferdinand Faber's genealogy (1850s) which contains mistakes and does not adequately document the famiies.  I am slowing documenting his ancestors and would like anyone else who is interested to review my work and make comments and suggestions.  You can start with his grandfather, Georg Ludwig (Hegel-9), and his wife, Anna Elisabetha Ensslin.(a Hirschmann descendant).

Answer 1

I had a history professor who thought very highly of Hegel and his thought's on thesis antithesis and synthesis.

Here's part of a Wikipedia article on Hegel and his closer relatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel#Childhood

He was born on August 27, 1770 in Stuttgart, in the Duchy of Württemberg in southwestern Germany. Christened Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, he was known as Wilhelm to his close family. His father, Georg Ludwig, was Rentkammersekretär(secretary to the revenue office) at the court of Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg.^{[24]:2–3, 745} Hegel's mother, Maria Magdalena Louisa (née Fromm), was the daughter of a lawyer at the High Court of Justice at the Württemberg court. She died of a "bilious fever" (Gallenfieber) when Hegel was thirteen. Hegel and his father also caught the disease but narrowly survived.^[25] Hegel had a sister, Christiane Luise (1773–1832), and a brother, Georg Ludwig (1776–1812), who was to perish as an officer in Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812.^[24]:4

Comments

Thanks! it will be a while before I tackle a biographical profile of Hegel. Right now I am trying to get the ancestors of his paternal grandmother documented and profiles written.