About Rudolf Reicke
Lived 1825 – 1905 (aged 80). Rudolf Reicke was a German historian and librarian.
Rudolf Reicke (5 February 182516 October 1905) was a German historian and scholar of Immanuel Kant.
From 1847 to 1852 he studied at the University of Königsberg, where his influences included Karl Rosenkranz and Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert. From 1858 he was associated with the university library and was named head librarian in 1894. In 1864, he founded the , a journal for "Kantiana".
Literary works Kantiana : Beiträge zu Immanuel Kants Leben und Schriften [] (1860) Lose blätter aus Kants nachlass [] (3 volumes, 1889–1898)
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German historian and scholar (1825-1905)
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Rudolf Reicke was born on 5 February 1825 in Klaipėda.
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Rudolf Reicke died on 16 October 1905 in Königsberg.
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