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gehören' aus Wasianskis Handexemplar," Sitzungsbericht der Altertumsgeselkchaft
Prussia 17 (1891/2), pp. 109-140, but they are not particularly interesting. See also
Vorländer, Die ältesten Kant-Biographien, pp. 28-29.
- Scheffner, Briefe von und an Scheffner, p. 448.
- Borowski referred to Scheffner, and what he might say, several times in the latter
half of his biography.
- Rudolf Maiter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1990), p. 442.
This book is an indispensable source for anyone interested in Kant's life.
- Friedrich Theodor Rink, Ansichten aus Immanuel Kant's Leben (Königsberg: Göbbels
and Unzer, 1805). See also Christian Friedrich Reusch, Kant und seine Tisch¬
genossen. Aus dem Nachlasse des jüngsten derselben (Königsberg: Tag and Koch, 1848,
published without date).
- Rink, Ansichten, pp. 15-17,75, 128-131.
- Rudolph Reicke, Kantiana. Beiträge zu Immanuel Kants Leben und Schriften (Königs¬
berg: Th. Theile's Buchhandlung, i860).
- Though Frederick William III had been relatively tolerant, Kant had the greatest
difficulties under his predecessor. Furthermore, Borowski knew that circumstances
could change quickly.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 29.
- Sommer had studied with Kant (beginning in the fall semester of 1771). He was
a good friend of Kant's later in life. Both shared an interest in chemistry. Begin¬
ning in 1784 he was the subinspector of the Collegium Fridericianum.
- The biography is the first volume of Kant's life, which had appeared in Leipzig in
1804, and which was probably written by Mellin.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 127.
- See Vorländer, Die ältesten Kant-Biographien, pp. i6f., 23f, 27.
- Borowski, Leben, p. iosf.
- SeeAk 12, p. 323f.
- Ak 12, p. 322.
- The German title is: Prüfung der Kantischen Religionsphilosophie in Hinsicht auf die
ihr beygelegte Ähnlichkeit mit dem reinen Mysticismus.
- Jachmann, Kant, p. 144.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 63. He claims that Kant saw this.
- Jachmann, Kant, pp. 178-180.
- I will call attention to such influences in the appropriate context. Just one example:
Borowski says that Martin Knutzen, one of Kant's Pietistic professors at the uni¬
versity, died in 1756 (when Kant was already teaching at the university) and that
Kant (naturally) applied for that position. But Knutzen had died in 1751. May we
really assume that Borowski did not know that Knutzen had died five years before
he himself entered the university? Borowski was interested in suggesting a conti¬
nuity between Knutzen and Kant that simply did not exist.
- The word "caricature" is from E A. Schmid, "Kant im Spiegel seiner Briefe," Kant-
Studien 9 (1914), pp. 3O7f.
- Heinrich Heine, Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland, vol. 3. Heinrich Heine,
Lyrik und Prosa, 2 vols., ed. Martin Greiner (Frankfurt [Main]: Büchergilde Guten¬
berg, 1962), II, p. 461.
