Augusto Vera
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Augusto Vera was an Italian philosopher who followed Hegel's theories and translated many of his works. Life Vera was born in Amelia in the province of Terni. He was educated in Rome and Paris, and, after teaching classics for some years in Geneva, held chairs of philosophy in various colleges in France. He was a philosophy teacher at the Lycée Victor-Duruy and subsequently was professor in Strasbourg and in Paris. He left Paris after the coup d'etat of 1851 and spent nine years in England. Attaching himself with enthusiasm to Hegel's system, Vera became widely influential in spreading a knowledge of the Hegelian doctrine, and became the chief representative of Italian Hegelianism.