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Immanuel Kant
German philosopher Immanuel Kant surrounded by Ouroboros, an emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and Greece, engraving by John Chapman, published in London, 1812.
Immanuel Kant was appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics at the Albertus University of Kƶnigsberg in 1770. He assumed this position after serving for 15 years as a Privatdozent (lecturer) at the university.12