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The Phenomenology of Spirit is published in Bamberg

In April 1807, after a delayed printing through the Jena war, Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes appeared with Joseph Anton Goebhardt in Bamberg and Würzburg as a public book. It is not the 1812 Logic, not later English translations, and not Marx’s posthumous use of dialectic. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In April 1807, after a delayed printing through the Jena war, Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes appeared with Joseph Anton Goebhardt in Bamberg and Würzburg as a public book. It is not the 1812 Logic, not later English translations, and not Marx’s posthumous use of dialectic. Hegel finished under bombardment weather; the printer manufactured sheets. The row stores one education-access print. Bamberg newspaper editorship is a neighbouring worsening job, not this colophon.

Context

A book that walks a reader from sense-certainty to spirit is a syllabus in bound form. That is education even when the prose is hard. It is not a claim that 1807 created a mass literacy series. The 1806 flight that carried the manuscript is a displacement neighbour. Illegitimate son Ludwig, born February 1807 in Jena, is a humanitarian neighbour, not this title page. A Bamberg printer’s sheets are the public object; a Bamberg editor’s salary is a different job in the same town.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Improving education path: a copyable odyssey of consciousness. High confidence on 1807. Modest-to-medium weight because the book became a school, still not a ministry syllabus. Newspaper censorship and restoration right are other dates. Later translators are other authors.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.44 · verified

    He wrote the 1807 Phenomenology. Goebhardt printed it. Complex author, not a later English translator.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind — Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — HegelStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Project Gutenberg’s public-domain Phenomenology locates the work as a printed object readers can still open. SEP independently dates the 1807 publication and treats the book as Hegel’s first major public system-piece. Official/public carrier: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17064 (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/ (opens in a new tab). The records establish 1807 print. They do not establish a unique later citation coefficient as a welfare outcome. Marx is not a 1807 co-author; later English translators are not this April shop. A contradictory first-edition year would change the row.

Established: Phenomenology of Spirit was published in 1807. Not established: that Marx co-signed it, or that Bamberg editorship is this book. A different first year would change the row; later translators would not. A showing of a different first year would change the row.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Phenomenology print is not Marx and not the Bamberg editorship’s censorship colour. Mixed effects of The Phenomenology of Spirit is published in Bamberg are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The Phenomenology of Spirit is published in Bamberg. Naming Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1807-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  2. contributed toFactThe Phenomenology of Spirit is published in Bamberg
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Phenomenology of Spirit is published in Bamberg. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/hg-phenomenology-1807

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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