The Hegel Prize of the City of Stuttgart was first awarded in 1970 on the occasion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 200th birthday.[1] It is awarded every three years to a person who has made a contribution to the development of the humanities. The award is endowed with 12,000 euros.[2] A jury decides on the award.
Source:
| 1970 | Bruno Snell | Germany | Philology | |
| 1973 | Jürgen Habermas | Germany | Philosophy | |
| 1976 | Ernst Gombrich | Austria / UK | History | |
| 1979 | Hans-Georg Gadamer | Germany | Philosophy | |
| 1982 | Roman Jakobson | Russia | Linguistics / Literary criticism | |
| 1985 | Paul Ricœur | France | Philosophy | |
| 1988 | Niklas Luhmann | Germany | Sociology | |
| 1991 | Donald Davidson | USA | Philosophy | |
| 1994 | Jacques Le Goff | France | History | |
| 1997 | Charles Taylor | Canada | Philosophy | |
| 2000 | Norberto Bobbio | Italy | Law / Political science | |
| 2003 | Dieter Henrich | Germany | Philosophy | |
| 2006 | Richard Sennett | USA | Sociology | |
| 2009 | Michael Tomasello | USA | Psychology | |
| 2012 | Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff | Germany | Law | |
| 2015 | Michael Theunissen | Germany | Philosophy | |
| 2018 | Michael Stolleis | Germany | Law / History | |
| 2021 | Béatrice Longuenesse | France | Philosophy |