Early Life
Immanuel Kant was born in the East Prussian city of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) at 5 a.m., 22 April 1724. He was the fourth of nine children, three of whom died in infancy. His mother, Anna Regina, died when he was thirteen . Kant acknowledged a lasting debt to her love and instruction. She seems to have been the first to recognize his intellectual gifts.
It was she who decided to direct me toward an academic education.
His father, Johann Georg, was a harness-maker, and died when Kant was twenty-two. Kant spent his childhood in an artisanal suburb of Konigsberg, growing up in an intensely Pietist milieu.
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