Immanuel Kant 1795 · Königsberg
Read, reflect & study
18:00–21:45 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 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.Source timing: Read at six; reflect at dusk; study until nearly ten
“At six o'clock he sat down to his library table, which was a plain ordinary piece of furniture, and read till dusk.”“After the candles were brought, Kant prosecuted his studies till nearly ten o'clock.”
Two separate excerpts · 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 “At six o’clock” and the following account of twilight and candlelit study
Timing & context
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.
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.