# Georg Lasson

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'''Georg Lasson''' (13 July 1862 – 2 December 1932) was a German Protestant [theologian](/source/theologian), and a son of [Adolf Lasson](/source/Adolf_Lasson). He was a co-editor of [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](/source/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel)'s ''Sämtliche Werke'' in the Meiner edition (see [Hegel bibliography](/source/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_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.<ref name=hodgsonrel>{{Cite book | publisher = University of California Press | isbn = 0520061268 | last = Hegel | first = Georg Wilhelm Friedrich |author2=Peter Crafts Hodgson |author3=Robert F Brown  | title = Lectures on the philosophy of religion. | location = Berkeley | date = 1988 | page = 9 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Lasson was born in Berlin. Georg Lasson studied philosophy and theology at the [Berlin University](/source/Berlin_University) and the [University of Tübingen](/source/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen). In 1885 he became a curate in [Potsdam](/source/Potsdam), and three years later, a pastor in Friedersdorf (near [Storkow](/source/Storkow%2C_Brandenburg)). He was pastor at the Bartholomäuskirche in Berlin from 1902 to 1927. In 1921 he received a PhD from the [University of Kiel](/source/University_of_Kiel).<ref name=DB>"[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd116004568.html#ndbcontent Lasson, Georg]" in: ''[Neue Deutsche Biographie](/source/Neue_Deutsche_Biographie)''. Band 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, {{ISBN|3-428-00194-X}}, S. 679–681.</ref>

He published his theological research in ''Theorie des christilichen Dogmas'' (1897) and ''Grundfragen der Glaubenslehre'' (1913).<ref name=DB/> After 1900 he went to [philosophy](/source/philosophy). Influenced by his father [Adolf Lasson](/source/Adolf_Lasson), he worked on [Hegel](/source/Hegel) and [German Idealism](/source/German_Idealism) that he interpreted through the Greek thought ([Plato](/source/Plato) and [Aristoteles](/source/Aristotle)). In Hegel's [dialectic](/source/dialectic) he saw a possibility for a synthesis between [philosophy](/source/philosophy) and [theology](/source/theology). He described the dialectic as the "identity of identity and non-identity" (''Was heisst Hegelianismus?'', 1916).<ref>Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, IV (1992), 1212-1213</ref> He published a critical edition of [Hegel](/source/Hegel)'s works and edited a series called ''Hegel Archiv'' (1912),<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/492990844 Hegel-Archiv. / Band I und II] OCLC WorldCat</ref> after the ''Kant Studien''. He died in Berlin.

== Literary works ==
* ''Hegels sämtlicher Werke''", (co-editor) 18 Volumes, 1905–1944. Leipzig: Meiner. {{oclc|12646090}} &ndash; Hegel's collected works.
* ''Gottessohn im Fleisch'', 1892 &ndash; Son of God in the flesh.
* ''Zur Theorie des christlichen Dogmas'', 1897 &ndash; On the theory of Christian dogma.
* ''Beiträge zur Hegelforschung'', 2 Vols., 1909 &ndash; Contributions to Hegel research.
* ''Grundfragen des Glaubens'', 1913 &ndash; Basic questions of doctrine.
* ''Hegel als Geschichtsphilosoph'', 1920 &ndash; Hegel as a philosopher of history.

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