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Martin Lampe (* 1734 in Würzburg ; † 1806 ) was a long-time servant of Immanuel Kant .

Life

After leaving the Prussian army, Lampe entered the service of Kant. Since he did not initially live in Kant's house, his master did not know that he was married. Lampe's second marriage also took place without Kant's consent. Lampes wife Anna Charlotte b. Kogelin and their daughter later helped with the household. After forty years of service, Kant felt compelled to dismiss him at the end of January 1802 because Lampe had started drinking. Kant had become so used to his old servant that he also called his successor Johann Kaufmann "Lampe", which is why he noted in a small book: "The name Lampe must now be completely forgotten." With his dismissal, Kant also changed his last will : While he had awarded Lampe 400 guilders a year in his will of 1798, he received only 40 thalers annual pension after his release.

Heinrich Heine mentioned lamp in his work on the history of religion and philosophy in Germany :

“'The old lamp must have a God, otherwise the poor person cannot be happy - but man should be happy in the world - that is what practical reason says - for me - so practical reason may also guarantee the existence of God.' As a result of this argument, Kant differentiates between theoretical reason and practical reason, and with this, like with a magic stick, he revived the corpse of deism, which theoretical reason killed. "

- Heinrich Heine : Works and letters in ten volumes. Volume 5, Berlin and Weimar 2nd edition 1972.

In the radio play Ein Nebulo bist du , Jens Sparschuh , which was awarded the radio play prize of the war blind in 1990, speculates what might have happened in Kant's house when Lampes was released.

literature

  • Manfred Kühn: Kant. A biography . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34394-7
  • Karl Vorländer : Immanuel Kant. The man and the work . Felix Meiner Verlag, Leipzig 1916 (2nd edition 1977, 3rd edition 1992, reprint Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-37-1 )
  • Karl Vorländer: Kant's Life . 4th edition, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7873-0671-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “A strange phenomenon of Kant's weakness was this. Usually you write down what you don't want to forget, but Kant wrote in his little book: The name lamp must now be completely forgotten. "God of honor Andreas Christoph Wasianski: Immanuel Kant in the last years of his life. A contribution to the knowledge of his character and his domestic life from daily dealings with him . Nicolovius, Königsberg 1804, page 36; Reprint: Thoemmes, Bristol 2002
  2. ↑ Kant's testament of February 27, 1798, line 26ff.
  3. ^ Heinrich Heine: Works and letters in ten volumes. Volume 5, Berlin and Weimar 2nd edition 1972.
  4. ↑ Jens Sparschuh: "You're a nebulo" ( Memento from December 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lamp, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German servant of Immanuel Kant
DATE OF BIRTH 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 1806