Define immanuel kant biography timeline

1. Life and works

Immanuel Kant was born April 22, 1724 in Königsberg, near the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Today Königsberg has been renamed Kaliningrad and is part of Russia. But during Kant’s lifetime Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia, and its dominant language was German. Though geographically remote from the rest of Prussia and other German cities, Königsberg was then a major commercial center, an important military port, and a relatively cosmopolitan university town.^[1]

Kant was born into an artisan family of modest means. His father was a master harness maker, and his mother was the daughter of a harness maker, though she was better educated than most women of her social class. Kant’s family was never destitute, but his father’s trade was in decline during Kant’s youth and his parents at times had to rely on extended family for financial support.

Kant’s parents were Pietist and he attended a Pietist school, the Collegium Fridericianum, from ages eight through fifteen. Pietism was an evangelical Lutheran movement that emphasized conversion, reliance on divine grace, the experience of religious emotions, and personal devotion involving regular Bible study, prayer, and introspection

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Immanuel Kant

German thinker (1724–1804)

"Kant" redirects here. Carry other uses, see Philosopher (disambiguation).

Immanuel Kant
Portrait of Philosopher, 1768
Born	Emanuel Kant (1724-04-22)22 April 1724 Königsberg, Kingdom sustaining Prussia
Died	12 Feb 1804(1804-02-12) (aged 79) Königsberg, East Preussen, Kingdom watch Prussia
Education
Era	Age designate Enlightenment
Region	Western philosophy
School
Institutions	University of Königsberg
Theses
Academic advisors	Martin Knutzen, Johann Gottfried Teske (M.A. advisor), Konrad Gottlieb Marquardt
Notable students	Jakob Sigismund Beck, Johann Gottfried Herdsman, Karl Leonhard Reinhold (epistolary correspondent)
Main interests	Aesthetics, epistemology, morality, metaphysics, methodical philosophy
Notable ideas

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Kant’s Life: Chronology

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This chronology of Kant’s life includes mention of his publications (with links to their fuller descriptions on the page devoted to Kant’s Writings), as well as other events significant for his life and work, including a selective listing of publications of other works in philosophy. An abridged version of this is available here as a pdf file).

For a full biography of Kant, see especially Cassirer [1918, Vorländer [1924], Kuehn [2001], and Dietzsch [2003]. An early biography written in English by Stuckenberg [1882] is of considerable interest and still worth reading. Important early biographical sources include the following: Mortzfeld [1802], Borowski [1804], Jachmann [1804], Wasianski [1804],[1] Hasse [1804], Metzger [1804a, 1804b], Reicke [1860],[2] and Rink [1805].[3] See also the biographies by Schubert [1842], Paulsen [1899], and more recently Gulyga [1977; English tr. 1987].

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A brief chronology of Kant’s mental decline is available.

A list of Kant images can be found here (and a PDF summary).

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