Within the context of Hegel’s lecturing activity, the lectures on the history of philosophy hold special significance: next to his lectures on logic and metaphysics, Hegel dedicated himself to no other topic as frequently and thoroughly. With these lectures, he effectively established the discipline of the history of philosophy within the framework of the philosophical sciences.
Hegel lectured on the history of philosophy as early as 1805/06 in Jena, in Heidelberg in 1816/17 and 1817/18, and then six times in Berlin (Summer 1819, Winter 1820/21, and subsequently on a biennial cycle: 1823/24, 1825/26, 1827/28, and 1829/30), though in Winter 1831/32, he was only able to deliver the beginning of the introduction. No lecture transcripts have been found for the Jena and Heidelberg courses, but the Berlin lectures are documented by transcripts from each year, with varying quality.
Volume 30,3 now documents the lecture course from the winter semester of 1825/26, which is particularly well-preserved through six transcripts of differing quality compared to other years with existing transcripts. The primary transcript is Karl Gustav Julius von Griesheim’s (1798–1854), notable for its scope and detail. Variants come from the transcripts of Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879), Johann Conrad Carl Löwe (1807–1891), Moritz Eduard Pinder (1807–1871), Friedrich Stieve (1804–1879), and an anonymous transcript dedicated to the jurist and parliamentarian Antoni Zygmunt Helcel (1808–1870).
The preceding volumes contain transcripts of the lectures from Summer 1819 and Winter 1820/21 (30,1) and transcripts from Winter 1823/24 (30,2). The following volumes will include the transcripts from the lecture courses of 1827/28 (Volume 30,4), 1829/30, as well as the beginning of the lecture course from 1831/32 (Volume 30,5), and the appendix (Volume 30,6).
Simon Gros 
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