Georg Lasson (13 July 1862, Berlin – 2 December 1932, Berlin) was a German Protestant

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

, and a son of Adolf Lasson. He was a co-editor of

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends ...

's ''Sämtliche Werke'' in the Meiner edition (see Hegel bibliography). Although the result is not always praised today, his edition is useful to researches as he had access to manuscripts that have since been lost.

Biography

Georg Lasson studied philosophy and theology at the

Berlin University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

and the

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. In 1885 he became a curate in

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, and three years later, a pastor in Friedersdorf (near Storkow). He was pastor at the Bartholomäuskirche in Berlin from 1902 to 1927. In 1921 he received a PhD from the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

.Lasson, Georg
In:

Neue Deutsche Biographie ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (''NDB''; literally ''New German Biography'') is a biographical reference work. It is the successor to the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, Universal German Biography). The 26 volumes published thus far cover ...

(NDB). Band 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, , S. 679–681. He published his theological research in ''Theorie des christilichen Dogmas'' (1897) and ''Grundfragen der Glaubenslehre'' (1913). After 1900 he went to

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

. Influenced by his father Adolf Lasson, he worked on

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...

and

German Idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

that he interpreted through the Greek thought (

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

and

Aristoteles Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phi ...

). In Hegel's

dialectic Dialectic ( grc-gre, διαλεκτική, ''dialektikḗ''; related to dialogue; german: Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing ...

he saw a possibility for a synthesis between

and

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. He described the dialectic as the "identity of identity and non-identity" (''Was heisst Hegelianismus?'', 1916). He published a critical edition of

's works and edited a series called ''Hegel Archiv'' (1912),Hegel-Archiv. / Band I und II
OCLC WorldCat after the ''Kant Studien''.

Literary works

* ''Hegels sämtlicher Werke''", (co-editor) 18 Volumes, 1905–1944. Leipzig: Meiner. – Hegel's collected works. * ''Gottessohn im Fleisch'', 1892 – Son of God in the flesh. * ''Zur Theorie des christlichen Dogmas'', 1897 – On the theory of Christian dogma. * ''Beiträge zur Hegelforschung'', 2 Vols., 1909 – Contributions to Hegel research. * ''Grundfragen des Glaubens'', 1913 – Basic questions of doctrine. * ''Hegel als Geschichtsphilosoph'', 1920 – Hegel as a philosopher of history.

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