# Hegel begins Berlin lectures on the philosophy of religion

Date: 1821

## The fact

In 1821 [Hegel](/people/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel) began lecturing in Berlin on the philosophy of religion, a public course that arranged determinate religions and Christianity as philosophical education for students who copied the cycles. He spoke; theologians argued. The row stores an education cycle. It does not twin aesthetics or history lectures. Left-Hegelian religion-critique is later reception, not this 1821 timetable, even where Feuerbach once heard Berlin.

## Context

A restoration university teaching religion as concept is still a classroom. Church police watched; students still heard a map. Do not treat later Left-Hegelian religion-critique as 1821 Hegel’s act — that is reception, and Feuerbach’s later books are not this timetable even if he once heard Berlin. Do not treat 1831 cholera as this course. Do not treat Philosophy of Right as this syllabus. Limits include Christian-centred ranking of traditions; they stay inside the course rather than minting extra Facts. Feuerbach’s later books are not this 1821 timetable even if he once heard Berlin; Marheineke-style editions are later editors.

Shared responsibility is part of Hegel begins Berlin lectures on the philosophy of religion. Naming Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1821-05-01 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.

## Evidence and sources

Berlin’s university locates the chair. SEP’s Hegel entry independently treats the Berlin philosophy-of-religion lectures as a lifetime teaching cycle. Official: https://www.hu-berlin.de/en. Independent: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/. The records establish the courses. They do not establish a unique later theology-enrolment series. Later printed religion lectures are not verbatim 1821 by default. A showing of no religion cycle would change the row.

Official or archival record: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (https://www.hu-berlin.de/en; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

## Significance

Improving education path. High confidence on the cycles, medium on later printed wording. Modest weight. Right 1821 remains a political book of the same year with a different sign. Posthumous editors are other authors. Do not invent a unique modern secularisation coefficient.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Hegel lectured on the philosophy of religion in Berlin from 1821. Not established: that later printed lectures are verbatim, or a unique later education index. A timetable without religion would change the row. A timetable without religion would change the row.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Religion lectures are not a later Left-Hegelian atheism party and not 1831 death. Mixed effects of Hegel begins Berlin lectures on the philosophy of religion are separate paths.

The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: https://factrail.ai/people/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.hu-berlin.de/en
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hg-religion-lectures-1821