“Before us is a new Hegel, not at all the same as we are used to seeing him. In some ways, biographers have conveyed his life story incorrectly. It's time to rediscover Hegel. Particular attention - at the risk of getting carried away by a reversal of emphasis - in this book will be given to what others have neglected, either out of ignorance or deliberately. We will devote less space and time, although this will also be discussed, to things that are generally known and recognized by everyone. This book will not exhaust the questions posed by the fate of such a person. She just wants to open up new perspectives that future researchers will have to deal with. But, despite the obvious gaps and, perhaps, some errors in detail, the author hopes to recreate here the image of Hegel, disturbing and irritating, alive. "