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Immanuel Kant - which was his nationality?

Immanuel Kant - which was his nationality?

  • German

    Votes: 3 50.0%

  • Russian

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • Prussian

    Votes: 5 83.3%
  • Total voters
    6
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Rumpel:

Kant was a Prussian, wasn't he? He was born in Königsberg in the early 1800s IIRC, before German Unification in 1870.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
Rumpel said:
Immanuel Kant - which was his nationality?
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He was Prussian. While he was alive, Germany was not even a country yet. It became a country about 70 years after his death.

Same with Beethoven- also not technically from "Germany". Also Goethe.
 
Rumpel said:

  • German - 2​

  • Russian - 1​

  • Prussian - 5​


  • Total voters 5
That's how it looks like at present.
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Just curious, what prompted you to ask what Kant's nationality was?
 
What the English Wikipedia knows:

Immanuel Kant (UK: /kænt/,[18][19] US: /kɑːnt/,[20][21] German: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl ˈkant, -nu̯ɛl];[22][23] 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.[24][25] Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.
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Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia

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Origins:

Kant's mother, Anna Regina Reuter[43] (1697–1737), was born in Königsberg (since 1946 the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) to a father from Nuremberg.[citation needed] Her surname is sometimes erroneously given as Porter. Kant's father, Johann Georg Kant (1682–1746), was a German harness maker from Memel, at the time Prussia's most northeastern city (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). Kant believed that his paternal grandfather Hans Kant was of Scottish origin.[44] While scholars of Kant's life long accepted the claim, there is no evidence that Kant's paternal line was Scottish and it is more likely that the Kants got their name from the village of Kantvainiai (German: Kantwaggen – today part of Priekulė) and were of Curonian origin.[45][46] Kant was the fourth of nine children (six of whom reached adulthood).[47]

Kant was born on 22 April 1724 into a Prussian German family of Lutheran Protestant faith in Königsberg, East Prussia. Baptized Emanuel, he later changed the spelling of his name to Immanuel[48] after learning Hebrew.
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Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia

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Should the airport at Kaliningrad be re-named as "Kant Airport"?

German philosopher Immanuel Kant is stirring up controversy in his now-Russian hometown of Kaliningrad, more than 200 years after his death. After his name spiked in popularity as a possible new moniker for the city's airport, his statue in the town was vandalized by nationalists and the philosopher was branded a "traitor" and a "Russophobe" by a local lawmaker.

"The name of the German Kant will not tarnish our airport," declared flyers that were passed out around Kaliningrad.

Kant, a foundational thinker of modern Western philosophy, was born in 1724 in what was then called Königsberg. The city was a part of eastern Prussia and included Polish and Lithuanian communities as well as the German-speaking majority.

Königsberg was the subject of a massive siege by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, and after the war became the Soviet exclave Kaliningrad, completely surrounded by Poland and Lithuania.

The airport near Kaliningrad is currently called Khrabrovo, after the closest village, but there is now a campaign to rename dozens of Russian airports. Many of them with have their own online polls, but none have caused as much of a stir as the possibility of a Kant Airport.
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Row over Immanuel Kant riles Russian hometown – DW – 12/04/2018

Locals in Kaliningrad have handed out flyers and created social media videos decrying Immanuel Kant as a "Russophobe." But Kant's supporters say it's just anti-German sentiment from those who don't understand philosophy.
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ataraxia said:
He was Prussian. While he was alive, Germany was not even a country yet. It became a country about 70 years after his death.
Same with Beethoven- also not technically from "Germany". Also Goethe.
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@ Goethe

Goethe's father, Johann Caspar Goethe, lived with his family in a large house (today the Goethe House) in Frankfurt, then a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
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There is the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation once again. :)
 
Rumpel said:
There is the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation once again. :)
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There is a story that Goethe one morning read in the newspaper that the Holy Roman Empire had just dissolved. Relaxedly sipping his tea, he remarked that the common people didn't even really notice the dissolution --: a thousand year old order just ceasing to exist, & most people didn't even notice nor care, LOL.
 
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who never was quite stable...
 
Rumpel said:
Now the Russians will claim, that Kant was a P-Russian from Kaliningrad. :cool:
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Rumpel:

Does that make Alaskans Russians too?

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
Evilroddy said:
Rumpel:

Does that make Alaskans Russians too?

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
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My question whether Kant was "Russian" was a rhethorical question, of course.
For me Kant is no Russion.
Just as Mozart is no Austrian.
I hope you all can see the parallel.
 
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