 By the age of 16, she had read Kierkegaard, Jaspers' "Psychologie der Weltanschauungen" and Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" ("Critique of Pure Reason").Kant, whose home town was also Königsberg, was an important influence on her thinking, and it was Kant who had written about Königsberg that "such a town is the right place for gaining knowledge concerning men and the world even without travelling".Arendt attended the Königin-Luise-Schule for her secondary education, a girls' "Gymnasium" on Landhofmeisterstrasse.