Karl Ludwig Michelet

Michelet studied at the grammar school and at Humboldt University in his native town, took his degree as doctor of philosophy in 1824, and became professor in 1829, a post which he retained till his death.

[2] Educated in the doctrine of Hegel, he remained faithful to his early teaching and spent his life defending and continuing the Hegelian tradition.

His first notable work was the System der philosophischen Moral (Berlin, 1828), which develops the principles contained in his inaugural dissertation.

In 1836 he published, in Paris, a treatise on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, written in French (Examen critique du livre d'Aristote intitulé Metaphysique) and crowned by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

Other works include: Eine italienische Reise in Briefen (Berlin, 1856), Die Geschichte der Menschheit in ihrem Entwickelungsgange seit dem Jahre 1775 bis auf die neuesten Zeiten (2 vols., 1859–60), Naturrecht, oder Rechtsphilosophie als die praktische Philosophie (3 vols., 1866), Esquisse de logique (Paris, 1856), Hegel der unwiderlegte Weltphilosoph (1870), Wahrheit aus meinem Leben (1886).