Hegel’s literary style is difficult, and his technicalities are almost barbarous. He uses philosophical and common terms with meanings to suit himself. He loves paradoxical phrases, and is pedantic in his insistence on systematic arrangement. 1. _Formative Period_ (1770–1796). Hegel was born at Stuttgart in 1770, and in the years between 1788 and 1793 he studied philosophy, theology, and the classics in the University of Tübingen. Among his companions there were Schelling and Hölderlin. From 1793 to 1796 he was a tutor in Switzerland, where he made a further study of Kant. 2. _Formulation of his Philosophy_ (1796–1806). Hegel formulated his philosophy for the first time in the four years (1796–1800) of his life at Frankfort, where he was acting in the capacity of tutor. In 1801 he became privat-docent at Jena through Schelling’s recommendation. He edited a philosophical journal with Schelling, and the two were friends so long as Hegel found Schelling’s assistance of value to himself. When, in 1803, Schelling left Jena, Hegel began to criticize his former friend’s philosophy. Hegel was appointed professor of philosophy at Jena in 1805. 3. _Development of his Philosophy_ (1806–1831). 1806. He wrote the _Phänomenologie_, which was published in 1807. 1807. The university was discontinued after the battle of Jena, and Hegel went to Bamberg to edit a newspaper. 1807–1815. Hegel was at Nuremberg as teacher in its gymnasium, and in 1811, at the age of forty-one, he married. 1812–1813. He published his _Logic_. 1816–1817. He was professor of philosophy at Heidelberg. He published his _Encyclopædia_, which consists of three parts: Logic, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Mind. This was enlarged in 1827. 1818. Hegel succeeded Fichte at Berlin, where he met with marked success, and where he exercised a very wide influence. When Hegel came to Berlin his philosophical theory was already formulated, and his thirteen years at Berlin were spent in illustrating and verifying it in history. 1831. At the height of his fame, he died of cholera.