The beloved hometown : growing up in Stuttgart, 1770-1788
A student at the Protestant seminary : Tubingen, 1788-1793
A private tutor of a patrician family : Switzerland, 1793-1796
From a mosaic of fragments to the cornerstone of a system : Frankfurt, 1797-1800
The birth of absolute idealism : Jena 1801-1807
The political journalist : Bamberg, 1807-1808
The first humanistic gymnasium and The science of logic : Nuremberg, 1808-1816
The owl of Minerva on the Neckar : Heidelberg, 1816-1818
The "great center" : becoming world-famous in Berlin, 1818-1831.