Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft
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The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft e.V. (International Hegel Society) is the oldest learned society dedicated to Hegel's intellectual heritage. It was initially founded by Wilhelm Raimund Beyer in 1953 as the Deutsche Hegel-Gesellschaft (German Hegel Society).
Beyer's efforts were supported by the City of Nürnberg in its celebration of the fact that Hegel taught in Nürnberg and that Hegel's wife, Marie Tucher, was the daughter of a well-known Nürnberg family.
History
The society was initially founded by Wilhelm Raimund Beyer in 1953 as the Deutsche Hegel-Gesellschaft (German Hegel Society) at the city of Nuremberg, to bring together scholars from both sides of the Iron Curtain. The society acquired its current name as the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft in the second international congress of 1958.
Beyer's efforts were supported by the City of Nürnberg in its celebration of the fact that Hegel taught in Nürnberg and that Hegel's wife, Marie Tucher, was the daughter of a well-known Nürnberg family.
Activities
The society currently supports over a thousand members from its Berlin headquarters. The International Hegel Society holds the “International Hegel Conference” every other year, documenting its proceedings in the Hegel Jahrbuch (Hegel Yearbook) which is available at Akademie Verlag, Berlin.
Board members
The founder of the International Hegel Society, Wilhelm Raimund Beyer, was chairman of the company until 1982, and since then, until his death in 1990, he was honorary chairman.
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