Christian Friedrich Reusch
Christian Friedrich Reusch (25 November 1778 – 25 April 1848) was an East Prussian Administrative law, administrative lawyer and writer who became an increasingly senior government administrator in East Prussia. He was, like his father, a member of the social circle of intellectuals, the , surrounding the celebrity Age of Enlightenment , enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant. Reusch is remembered two centuries later for his surviving written recollections of Kant and his friends before and during the years dominated by the French Revolution of 1789 and the ensuing French Revolutionary Wars, wars which it triggered across Europe. Life Provenance and early years Christian Friedrich Reusch, named after his paternal grandfather, was the middle son of the three born to the Königsberg physicist and librarian :de:Karl Daniel Reusch, Karl Daniel Reusch (1735-1806) and his wife. He received his early schooling, together with his elder brother, from a home tutor. Later he moved on ...
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Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia. A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of the Królewiec Voivodeship, the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia and the provinces of East Prussia and Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy, though the capital was moved to Berlin in 1701. Between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries, the inhabitants spoke predominantly German, but the multicultural city also had a profound influence upon the Lithuanian and Polish cultures. The city was a publishing center of Lutheran literature, including the first Polish translation of the New Testament, printed in the city in 1551, the first book in Lithuanian and the first Lutheran catechism, ...
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