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Immanuel Kant - which was his nationality?
Immanuel Kant - which was his nationality?
Just curious, what prompted you to ask what Kant's nationality was?
German - 2
Russian - 1
Prussian - 5
That's how it looks like at present.
- Total voters 5
Now the Russians will claim, that Kant was a P-Russian from Kaliningrad.Kant was a Prussian, wasn't he? He was born in Königsberg in the early 1800s IIRC, before German Unification in 1870.
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.
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.
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.
Mozart!Just curious, what prompted you to ask what Kant's nationality was?
uh huhMozart!
And what about Friedrich Schiller?Same with Beethoven- also not technically from "Germany". Also Goethe.
Uhuru - isn't that a Mountain in Australia?uh huh
I see. Joke thread. Nevermind.Uhuru - isn't that a Mountain in Australia?
Or is it Uluru?
No - I am serious!I see. Joke thread. Nevermind.
@ GoetheHe 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.
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.
There is the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation once again.
So it was - yes, so it was .....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.
And very rarely stable.He was a real pissant.
Rumpel:Now the Russians will claim, that Kant was a P-Russian from Kaliningrad.
My question whether Kant was "Russian" was a rhethorical question, of course.Rumpel:
Does that make Alaskans Russians too?
Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
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