Like the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 1831), whose system he would severely criticize, Kierkegaard entered university in order to study theology but devoted himself to literature and philosophy instead.
In 1907 the Hopes immigrated to Cleveland, where he briefly attended public schools, briefly studied dancing and briefly devoted himself to amateur boxing under the name Packy East.
After settling near San Francisco, where he lived until his death in 2003, he studied Zen calligraphy and devoted himself to what he called "the inner world beyond dreams".
In 1873 he enrolled in St . Petersburgs Konstantinovskoe Military School and soon transferred to the Mining Institute, but during his second year there, he abandoned his studies to devote himself entirely to a populist revolutionary movement.
Spurred on in this way, at the age of 20 he abandoned his law studies and from then on devoted himself to writing.
Mr. Keltner, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has devoted himself to studying the social functions of emotion.
Working in a succession of laboratories, from a houseboat to the modern facility named for him, Dr. Haskin devoted himself to studying the oyster and its habitat.
His strict episcopal discipline giving offense to the patriarch Athanasius II of Antioch, he retired and devoted himself to study and teaching.
While there, he devoted himself to studying health care, believing that it was far more important to the future of the budget than any other issue in front of Congress.
Lifton, whose academic affiliations include stints at the City University of New York, Yale and, most recently, Harvard, has devoted himself to studying how individuals have coped with extreme circumstances: war, torture, genocide.
