ABSTRACT
The news of Immanuel Kant's death, which spread through the city like wildfire, made a deep impression in many different spheres. The dryness of the corpse enabled it to remain above ground for a full sixteen days. The burial ceremony did not take place until the 28th February. A vast mass of people waited in silence in the streets. The sound of all the bells of the city and the accompaniment of funeral music, the procession, in which students bore the coffin, wended its way to the University or Cathedral-church, where it was received by the academic senate and conducted into the church, which had been decorated in a dignified manner. The dryness of corpse enabled it to remain above ground for a full sixteen days. To the sound of all the bells of the city and the accompaniment of funeral music, this had been decorated in a dignified manner.
