University of Königsberg
Videos
The University of Königsberg was a university in Königsberg, East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia and received the royal privilege by
Elevation of the Albertinum and the northern half of the cathedral , c. 1810
Collegium Albertinum, c. 1850
Backside of the Collegium Albertinum in Kneiphof, where Kant taught. The quarter was destroyed in World War II.
The 300th anniversary of the University of Königsberg. Includes an interior view of the auditorium maximum, c. 1844
Immanuel Kant
Videos
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epist
University of Königsberg
…the Elder. Notable alumni were Johann Gottfried Herder, Zacharias Werner, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and foremost the philosopher Immanuel Kant, rector in 1786 and 1788. These scholars laid the foundations for the later Weimar Classicism and German Romanticism movements. The Albertina's magnificent…
Portrait by Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768
Kant's house in Königsberg in an 1842 painting
The philosopher David Hume by Allan Ramsay
Portrait of Kant by Johann Christoph Frisch, after Johann Gottlieb Becker, c. 1770