Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a famous philosopher in Germany who lived in the 1700s and 1800s. He wrote a lot of books and wrote about ideas to help us understand how the world works. He thought that everything changeable in the world was actually part of a system that was constantly evolving, and that through understanding this system or “dialectic”, we can understand the world around us as well. Basically, Hegel wrote about how things that are different can come together and how people can learn to accept change in the world.