two o'clock in the afternoon
The fact was , I foresaw that the students of the University would never allow themselves to be robbed of this occasion for expressing their veneration by a public funeral . The event showed that I was right ; for a funeral such as Kant 's , one so solemn and so magnificent , the city of Königsberg has never witnessed before or since . The public journals , and separate accounts in pamphlets , etc. , have given so minute an account of its details , that I shall here notice only the heads of the ceremony . On the 28th of February , at two o'clock in the afternoon , all the dignitaries of church and state , not only those resident in Königsberg , but from the remotest parts of Prussia , assembled in the church of the Castle . Hence they were escorted by the whole body of the University , splendidly dressed for the occasion , and by many military officers of rank , with whom Kant had always been a great favorite , to the house of the deceased Professor ; from which the corpse was carried by torch-light , the bells of every church in Königsberg tolling , to the Cathedral which was lit up by innumerable wax-lights . A never-ending train of many thousand persons followed it on foot . In the Cathedral , after the usual burial rites , accompanied with every possible expression of national veneration to the deceased , there was a grand musical service , most admirably performed , at the close of which Kant 's mortal remains were lowered into the academic vault , where he now rests among the ancient patriarchs of the University .