15 moments

1. Born in Königsberg

   1724-04-22 · Vordere Vorstadt, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   Kant was born in the Vordere Vorstadt, the artisan district of Königsberg where his father worked as a harness maker. The coordinate is a representative point in the former Vordere Vorstadt; the precise location of the birth house near Sattlerstraße is uncertain.

2. Attends the Hospitalschule

   1730-01-01 · Hospitalschule area, Vordere Vorstadt, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   At about six or seven, Kant began formal schooling at a grammar school associated with a local hospital in Königsberg. The date is approximate from Kant's stated age. The coordinate represents the former hospital district because the exact school building has not been securely located.

3. Begins at Collegium Fridericianum

   1732-01-01 · Collegium Fridericianum, Löbenicht, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   Pastor Franz Albert Schulz arranged for eight-year-old Kant to attend Königsberg's Pietist Collegium Fridericianum, where he received intensive instruction in languages and religion.

4. Enters the University of Königsberg

   1740-01-01 · University of Königsberg, Kneiphof, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   At sixteen, Kant entered the Albertina in Königsberg, beginning the university education that introduced him to Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy and Newtonian science. The card uses year precision because this source does not give the enrollment day.

5. Graduates from Collegium Fridericianum

   1740-01-01 · Collegium Fridericianum, Löbenicht, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   Kant completed his secondary education at the Collegium Fridericianum at the end of summer 1740 before proceeding to university study. The source supports the season but not a specific day or month.

6. Tutors the Andersch family in Judtschen

   1748-01-01 · Pastor's estate, Judtschen (Veselovka), Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

   

   Kant left Königsberg for rural employment and taught the children of Pastor Daniel Ernst Andersch in Judtschen, a French-speaking Reformed settlement. Sources differ between 1747–1751 and 1748–1751. The coordinate marks the pastor's-estate museum site; the present structure postdates Kant but occupies the documented estate location.

7. Works as a tutor at Groß-Arnsdorf

   1750-01-01 · Groß-Arnsdorf estate, Jarnołtowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

   

   During his years outside Königsberg, Kant served as a private tutor at the von Hülsen estate in Groß-Arnsdorf, now Jarnołtowo in Poland. Some scholarly chronologies place the end of this appointment around 1753. The coordinate represents the village; the eighteenth-century manor no longer survives.

8. Returns to Königsberg

   1754-08-01 · Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   Kant returned from his period of rural tutoring to Königsberg, where he pursued academic qualifications and began the university career that occupied the remainder of his working life. The source supports month, but not day, precision; the coordinate is a representative central-city point.

9. Begins lecturing at the Albertina

   1755-01-01 · University of Königsberg, Kneiphof, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

   

   After securing authorization to teach, Kant began his long career as a lecturer at the University of Königsberg, initially covering mathematics, physics, logic, and metaphysics.

10. Serves in the castle library

    1765-01-01 · University Library, Königsberg Castle, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

    

    Kant supplemented his income as an assistant librarian in the university collection, then housed in two rooms inside Königsberg Castle. Some accounts date the beginning of Kant's library appointment to 1766; the coordinate represents the former castle complex.

11. Lives and lectures in Kanter's house

    1766-01-01 · Kanter House, former Löbenicht Town Hall, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

    Around 1766 Kant moved into rooms above Johann Jakob Kanter's bookshop in the former Löbenicht town hall. His apartment was large enough for him to conduct lectures there. The German quotation states that Kant occupied the left side of the second floor for at least eight years and lectured there. The coordinate is an approximate historical-map placement of the former Löbenicht town hall.

12. Presides over inaugural disputation

    1770-08-21 · University of Königsberg, Kneiphof, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

    

    Kant held the formal disputation inaugurating his professorship in logic and metaphysics. The dissertation introduced themes central to his later critical philosophy.

13. Moves into his own house

    1784-05-22 · Kant House, Prinzessinplatz 87/86, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

    

    Kant moved into the house he had purchased near Königsberg Castle. It became his residence, writing place, lecture venue, and setting for his regular meals with friends. The house was demolished in 1893. The coordinate is an approximate reconstruction of its site immediately north of the former Königsberg Castle.

14. Ends four decades of university teaching

    1796-01-01 · University of Königsberg, Kneiphof, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

    

    Kant retired from teaching at seventy-two after approximately four decades lecturing at the Albertina, although he formally retained his professorial position. In the quoted passage, “there” refers to the Albertina, the University of Königsberg, identified immediately beforehand.

15. Dies in his Königsberg home

    1804-02-12 · Kant House, Prinzessinplatz 87/86, Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia

    

    After remaining in his Prinzessinplatz house through retirement and declining health, Kant died there at the age of seventy-nine. The house no longer exists; the coordinate is an approximate reconstruction of its historical site.