Johann Heinrich Kant

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Johann Heinrich Kant (born November 4, 1735 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † February 22, 1800 in the Courland Governorate ) was a Protestant pastor in Courland.

Life

Still taught by his brother Immanuel Kant , who was eleven years older than him , Johann Heinrich Kant studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . After graduating, he was court master in the Duchy of Courland and Zemgale for 15 years . In 1774 he went to the Mitau city ​​school as vice-principal , which became the Academia Petrina the following year . Kant became its rector . In 1781 he moved to the parish Alt-Rahden (Vecsaule) as a pastor . When the Russian Governorate of Courland was established in 1795 , the parish became part of the Courland Consistorial District . In philology, mathematics and history, the knowledge of the younger Kant is said to have been “nothing less than everyday”. The connection with his older brother was only maintained through rare letters. Walter Benjamin accepted them in German people .

From the marriage with Maria geb. Havemann (1748–1831), a merchant's daughter from Libau, Johann Heinrich Kant had five children. Although Immanuel Kant had probably never seen his sister-in-law and her children, he left her a generous inheritance.

“Celibacy has its comforts as long as you are young. In old age you have to be married or put up with leading a sullen, sad life. "

- Johann Heinrich Kant

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dates of life after From Petersburg to Panama. The genealogy of the Kant family , accessed March 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Friedrich Theodor Rinck : Views from Immanuel Kant's life
  3. ^ Arnulf Zweig: Kant's correspondence (1999)
  4. ^ Letter to his brother dated May 13, 1775
personal data
SURNAME Kant, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1800
Place of death Courland