HINRICHS, HERMANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM German Hegelian philosopher, studied theology at Strassburg, and philosophy at Heidelberg under Hegel (q.v.), who wrote a preface to his Religion im innern Verhaltniss zue Wissenschaft (Heidelberg, 1822) directed against Schleiermacher. He became a Privatdozent in 1819, and held professorships at Breslau (2822) and Halle (2824).