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Menzer List of 1912

Max Heinze was assigned the general editorship of the fourth division of the Academy edition of Kant’s gesammelte Schriften (1900 ff.), which was to include all of the student notes from Kant’s lectures. The area editors for this division were Heinze (for the notes on metaphysics, logic, and natural religion), Paul Gedan (physical geography), Oswald Külpe (anthropology), Paul Menzer (moral philosophy), and Rudolf Stammler (physics) [Kant-Studien, 1: 150 (1897)].

Paul Menzer assumed the duties of general editor upon the death of Heinze on 17 September 1909. Paul Gedan, Rudolf Stammler, and Menzer continued serving as area editors, with Bruno Bauch joining this group as the moral philosophy editor, with Menzer taking over Heinze’s assignment [AA 1: xvii (1910)].

It was in this context that Menzer prepared a list in 1912 of all the currently available sets of lecture notes. Many of these manuscripts were with Menzer in Halle, and then were sent back to the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1922, and from there some were sent back to private owners.

Menzer’s numbers are followed by the current names of the manuscripts.  This list is made available here in order to facilitate the interpretation of any references to the list found in the older literature.

Physical Geography [Menzer lists the physical geography notes using Adickes’s letter designations.  Unlike with the other notes, he does not provide titles.]

1. Herder

2. an-Holstein-Beck

3. an-Karman

4. an-Friedländer 2

5. an-Königsberg 2

6. Powalski

7. an-Königsberg 4

8. an-Barth

9. an-Pillau 3

10. an-Reicke 4

11. Crueger

12. Fehlhauer

13. an-Prussia

14. Busolt 2

15. Volckmann 1

16. Puttlich 2

17. an-Reicke 3

18. an-Königsberg 3

19. Vigiliantius 1

20. Wolter

21. an-Werner

Anthropology

1. an-Messina (geography)
This manuscript was unavailable to Menzer, and he listed it simply by the library in Messina (Italy) where it was housed.  Only later was it properly identified as a set of notes on physical geography.

2. an-Friedländer 1

3. an-Elbing

4. Matuszewksi.

5. Mrongovius 1

6. Elsner

7. an-Königsberg 1

8. Reichel

9. Dohna-Schlobitten 1

10. an-Berlin 1

11. an-Gotthold 1

12. an-Prieger

13. Flothwell [sic]

14. an-Pillau

15. Busolt

16. Philippi 1

17. Jacobi

18. an-Ostpreußische Regierung

19. Nicolai 1

20. Pohl

21. Brauer

22. an-Parow

23. Puttlich 1

Logic

1. Busolt 3

2. Philippi 3

3. Hintz

4. an-Reicke 5

5. Grünheide

6. Bauch

7. Hoffmann

8. Vigilantius 2

9. Dohna-Schlobitten

10. an-Blomberg

11. Volckmann 2

12. Mrongovius 4.3


Metaphysics

1. Nicolai 2

2. an-Pölitz 1

3. Rosenhagen

4. Herder
Menzer writes: “Fragmente des Herderschen Heftes, teils in Brouillon, teils in Ausarbeitung vorliegend.  Besitzer: Königl. Bibliothek Berlin.”

5. Mrongovius

6. Volckmann

7. von Schön 2

8. Willudovius

9. an-Korff

10. an-Königsberg 5

11. an-Reicke 6

12. Vigilantius 3

Moral Philosophy

1. an-Dilthey

2. an-Berlin 2

3. Dohna-Schlobitten 3

4. Brandt

5. Vigilantius 4

6. an-Powalski

7. Herder

8. an-Friedländer 3

9. an-Gotthold 2

10. an-Reicke 7

11. an-Mrongovius

12. Collins

13. an-Gotthold 3 (2 vols)

14. Mrongovius 4.2

15. Brauer 2

16. Kutzner

Natural Theology

1.

2.

3.

Natural Law

1.

Philosophical Encyclopedia

1.

Physics

1.[one of these will be Mrongovius 4.1]

2.