Königsberg century
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The cultural heyday of Königsberg in the 18th century was referred to as the Königsberg Century in Prussia . It began with the coronation of Frederick III. of Brandenburg and ended with Prussia's defeat in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt .
Johann Christoph Gottsched was born in Juditten in 1700 . He studied at the Albertus University in Königsberg before going to the University of Leipzig . Immanuel Kant (* 1724) spent almost his entire life in his native Königsberg. Other thinkers and writers of the 18th century who came from Königsberg or worked there were Johann Georg Hamann (* 1730), Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (* 1741), Johann Gottfried Herder (* 1744), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (* 1752), Zacharias Werner (* 1768).
ETA Hoffmann (* 1776) enriched German romanticism .
The great salonnière at that time was Caroline von Keyserling (* 1727), who like Kant stayed in Königsberg all her life.
literature
- Hermann Güttler: Königsberg's musical culture in the 18th century . Koenigsberg 1925.
- Joseph Kohnen (ed.): Königsberg studies. Contributions to a special chapter in German intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries . Peter Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1998.
- Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic . Hanser, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
- Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg life in the Rococo. Important contemporaries of Kant . Writings of the JG Herder-Bibliothek Siegerland, Vol. 7, Siegen 1981. Sketch-like insights.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann: A life in Königsberg. Two new Kant biographies , Deutschlandradio 2004.