Editing Frederick C. Beiser (section)

==Life and career==
Beiser was born on November 27, 1949, in [[Albert Lea, Minnesota|Albert Lea]], [[Minnesota]]. In 1971, Beiser received a [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Shimer College]], a [[Great Books]] college then located in [[Mount Carroll, Illinois|Mount Carroll]], [[Illinois]].<ref name="shimer-catalog">{{Cite book|title=Shimer College Catalog 1972–1973|author=Shimer College|year=1972|chapter=The Students|page=109}}</ref><ref name="alumdir">{{cite book|title=Shimer College Faculty & Alum Directory 2000|year=2000|author=Shimer College}}</ref>{{verification needed|date=May 2019}} He then studied at the [[Oriel College]] of the [[University of Oxford]], where he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[philosophy, politics and economics]] in 1974.<ref name="CV"/> He subsequently studied at the [[London School of Economics and Political Science]] from 1974 to 1975.<ref name="CV"/> Beiser earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (DPhil) degree in [[philosophy]] at [[Wolfson College, Oxford]], in 1980, under the direction of [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]] and [[Isaiah Berlin]].<ref name="CV"/> His doctoral thesis was titled ''The Spirit of the Phenomenology: Hegel's Resurrection of Metaphysics in the Phänomenologie des Geistes''.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Beiser |first=F.&nbsp;C. |year=1980 |title=The Spirit of the Phenomenology: Hegel's Resurrection of Metaphysics in the Phänomenologie des Geistes |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/td:602337137 |degree=DPhil |location=Oxford |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=May 19, 2019}}</ref>

After receiving his DPhil in 1980, Beiser moved to West Germany, where he was a Thyssen Research Fellow at the [[Free University of Berlin]]. He returned to the United States four years later.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century|first1=Michael N.|last1=Forster|first2=Kristin|last2=Gjesdal|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2015|isbn=9780199696543|page=9}}</ref> He joined the [[University of Pennsylvania]]'s faculty in 1984, staying there until 1985. He then spent the springs of 1986 and 1987 at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] and [[University of Colorado Boulder]], respectively.

In 1988, Beiser moved again to West Germany, where he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. He returned to the United States in 1990 to take up a professorship at [[Indiana University Bloomington]], where he remained until 2001. During his tenure at Indiana, he spent time teaching at [[Yale University]]. He joined [[Syracuse University]] in 2001, where he is now emeritus. He also taught at [[Harvard University]] during the spring of 2002.<ref name="cv">{{Cite web|url=http://asfaculty.syr.edu/pages/phi/_CVs/beiser-fredCV2012.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae: Frederick Charles Beiser|access-date=2012-10-03|archive-date=September 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926014153/http://asfaculty.syr.edu/pages/phi/_CVs/beiser-fredCV2012.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for his research in 1994,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/989-frederick-c-beiser|title=Frederick C. Beiser|author=Guggenheim Foundation|access-date=2012-10-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004142213/http://www.gf.org/fellows/989-frederick-c-beiser|archive-date=2012-10-04}}</ref> and was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Life Devoted to Philosophy - Germany honors Professor Frederick Charles Beiser|url=http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/GKs/NEWY/2015/11/10__Reiser.html|access-date=December 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043841/http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/GKs/NEWY/2015/11/10__Reiser.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>