Hegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichHe‧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 →dialectic