The lives of the naturalist Georges Cuvier, the father of comparative anatomy, and of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel shared several similarities. Contemporaries, both men were born and died almost at the exact same time, they enjoyed mutual friends, were subjects of the same state of the old regime (Württemberg), and suffered from unpopularity for reasons often having nothing at all to do with science. These coincidences and their common battle with the German school of Naturphilosophie, convinced me to construct an intertwined biography of both men, recovering the old structure of parallel lives.
Adrià Casinos, History of Science
