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Kant's income fluctuated greatly during his years as a lecturer. There is no reason
to assume this. The accounts of Jachmann, Borowski, and Kant are compatible.
- At least since 1761. But the letter says that he "always" had a servant (Ak 11,
p. 149). See also Borowski, Leben, p. 83.
- Ak ii, p. 256.
- See also Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 44.
- Akio, p. 3.
- Ak 12, p. 3.
- Reicke, Kantiana, p. 7; see also the anonymous Leipzig biography, pp. 12, 126;
Rink, Ansichten, p. 30; and Borowski, Leben, p. 31.
- See Arthur Warda, "Zur Frage nach Kant's Bewerbung um eine Lehrerstelle, "Alt-
preussische Monatsschrift 35 (1898), pp. 578-614. Warda's research makes this time
very likely, though one might expect that this event took place earlier.
- Warda, "Lehrerstelle," pp. 6o6f.
- For more information on Kypke, see Werner Stark, "Hinweise zu Kants Kollegen
vor 1770," unpublished manuscript. See also Ak 10, pp. 17, 19, 25, 33.
- In 1743 he defended "De incomprehensibilitate dei, respectu intellectu infiniti" un¬
der Teske. He then went to Halle and returned to Königsberg, having obtained the
Magister degree. His career is in many ways typical of that of a well-connected
Königsberg Pietist, and is quite different from Kant's.
- Stark, "Kants Kollegen" (unpublished manuscript).
- See Winter, "Selbstdenken, Antinomien, Schranken."
- Stark, "Kants Kollegen," points out that the title of a published book by Kypke
was Treatise on Brevity and Extensiveness in Written Presentation. Kant spoke on
"The Easier and More Thorough Presentation of Philosophy" on the occasion of
receiving his doctorate.
- Hamann, Briefwechsel, I, p. 226.
- From Stark, "Kants Kollegen."
- Compare Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (Alabama:
University of Alabama Press, 1973), pp. 307-309. For later developments see also
pp. 216-217 of this volume.
- Borowski also said that "among his academic colleagues, Funk was very dear to
him" (see Reicke, Kantiana, p. 31).
- Wannowski in Reicke, Kantiana, p. 39; he mentioned Kypke as his second friend,
and also mentioned Lilienthal as someone he respected, "however much he dis¬
agreed with his views."
- Borowski, Leben, pp. 59f
- I am thankful to Werner Stark for this information.
- Th. G. v. Hippel, Sämmtliche Werke, 14 vols., ed. Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel
(Berlin: Reimer, 1828-39; reprint de Gruyter, 1978), XII, pp. 3of.
- Flottwell writes on January 29, 1751, that Knutzen inherited first 10,000 Thalers
and then another 15,000 Thalers, "and yet this philosopher lives in bad humor
(misvergniigt), without social intercourse, and as a complete pedant." Three days
after Flottwell wrote this, Knutzen was dead.
- Jachmann, Kant, p. 191; he speaks vaguely of Kant's "younger years," and adds
