Walter Jaeschke is the Director of the Hegel Archive in Bochum. He is known for his new and fundamental critical editions of Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of religion and his lectures on the history of philosophy.

In 2003, he published a comprehensive reconstruction of Hegel's life and writings, as well as the Vorlesungsnachschriften (the transcripts of students' notes from Hegel's university lectures). In Spanish, it has been published as Hegel: The Conscience of Modernity.