GEORG ANDREAS

GABLER (1786-1853)  , German Hegelian philosopher, son of J . P . Gabler (below), was born on the 3oth of July 1786, at Altdorf in Bavaria . In 1804 he accompanied his father to Jena, where he completed his studies in philosophy and law, and became an enthusiastic disciple of Hegel . After holding various educational appointments, he was in 1821 appointed rector of the Bayreuth gymnasium, and in 1830 general superintendent of schools . In 1835 he succeeded Hegel in the Berlin chair . He died at Teplitz on the 13th of September 1853 . His works include Lehrbuch d. philos . Propddeutik (1st vol., Erlangen, 1827), a popular exposition of the Hegelian system; De verae philosophiae erga religionem Christianam pietate (Berlin, 1836), and Die Hegel'sche Philosophie (ib., 1843), a defence of the Hegelian philosophy against Trendelenburg . Koran great prominence is given to his function as the medium of divine revelation, and, according to the Mahommedan interpreters, he it is who is referred to by the appellations " Holy Spirit" and "Spirit of Truth." He is specially commemorated in the calendars of the Greek, Coptic and Armenian churches .