Immanuel Kant’s Typical Tuesday

1795 is a representative display year selected by Typical Tuesday. The source describes an established teaching-era routine in the 1790s. It resumes Wasianski’s close association in 1790 and separately describes changes in old age; this is not the schedule of Kant’s final illness. De Quincey adapts German accounts by Wasianski, Jachmann, Borowski, and others; he was not an eyewitness. This calendar follows the habitual sequence in that adaptation. Lectures belong to teaching days, dinner length varied, and uncertain boundaries are labeled. Calendars draw on accounts of daily life, recurring habits and intended schedules. Dates identify the documented period or the source’s context, not necessarily one precisely dated day. Inferred times are shown with diagonal stripes and explained in the activity details; gaps mean no documented activity is shown. 05:00 · start only — Tea at the breakfast table. Five o’clock is explicit. The name of the table does not imply a full meal; the account says he ate nothing until dinner. No tea duration is supplied. 07:00–12:15 · Estimated — Lectures, then writing. Estimated: 07:00 represents the source’s approximate start. 12:15 follows the wording of this English adaptation. No exact lecture length or uninterrupted work period is claimed.. The source gives “about seven” for going to lectures. The two activities are kept together because the changeover to writing is not timed. The following paragraph says he rose from his chair “three quarters before one.” 13:00–16:00 · Estimated — Dinner & conversation. Estimated: 13:00 is stated. 16:00 is one of the reported finishing times, chosen for the display; later dinners shift the following walk.. The account describes recurring dinner parties, starting at one. They could end at four, five, or later, so the finish was not fixed. 16:00–17:00 · Estimated — Walk after dinner. Estimated: Placed after the displayed 16:00 dinner finish with an illustrative one-hour duration. On days with longer dinners, the walk began later.. The recurring walk follows dinner, whose end varied. Neither a fixed departure time nor a walk duration is given. 18:00–21:45 · Estimated — Read, reflect & study. Estimated: 18:00 is explicit. 21:45 represents the described quarter-hour wind-down before the usual 22:00 bedtime. Dusk and the internal activity boundaries vary.. The sequence includes reading, reflection at dusk, and further study after candles arrive. It is not continuous reading. The account describes easing off demanding thought a quarter-hour before bed. 22:00 · start only — Retire to bed. This recalls his earlier habitual bedtime. The next sentence explicitly says he retired at nine in 1802 and still earlier later on, so this entry is not his final-years bedtime.

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