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GEORG ANDREAS GABLER (1786-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GABLER (1786-1853)  , See also:German Hegelian philosopher, son of J . P . See also:Gabler (below), was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:July 1786, at See also:Altdorf in See also:Bavaria . In 1804 he accompanied his See also:father to See also:Jena, where he completed his studies in See also:philosophy and See also:law, and became an enthusiastic See also:disciple of See also:Hegel . After holding various educational appointments, he was in 1821 appointed See also:rector of the See also:Bayreuth gymnasium, and in 1830 See also:general See also:superintendent of See also:schools . In 1835 he succeeded Hegel in the See also:Berlin See also:chair . He died at See also:Teplitz on the 13th of See also:September 1853 . His See also:works include Lehrbuch d. philos . Propddeutik (1st vol., See also:Erlangen, 1827), a popular exposition of the Hegelian See also:system; De verae philosophiae erga religionem Christianam pietate (Berlin, 1836), and See also:Die Hegel'sche Philosophie (ib., 1843), a See also:defence of the Hegelian philosophy against See also:Trendelenburg . See also:Koran See also:great prominence is given to his See also:function as the See also:medium of divine See also:revelation, and, according to the See also:Mahommedan interpreters, he it is who is referred to by the appellations " See also:Holy Spirit" and "Spirit of Truth." He is specially commemorated in the calendars of the See also:Greek, Coptic and Armenian churches .

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