Immanuel Kant 1795 · Königsberg
Dinner & conversation
13:00–16:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 13:00 is stated. 16:00 is one of the reported finishing times, chosen for the display; later dinners shift the following walk.Source timing: From one to four, five, or even later
“the time flew rapidly away, from one o'clock to four, five, or even later, profitably and delightfully.”
Verbatim excerpt · Thomas De Quincey, adapting Wasianski and other early biographers
Line breaks and page markers omitted.
The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
In Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. II · Project Gutenberg eBook 6147
“The Last Days of Immanuel Kant” · account of the established daily routine before the later decline
Passage: Paragraph beginning “There was no friend of Kant’s”
Timing & context
The account describes recurring dinner parties, starting at one. They could end at four, five, or later, so the finish was not fixed.
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.
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.