Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue)

Jean Baptiste Girard, as Franciscans called Père Grégoire ( born December 17, 1765 in Fribourg, † March 6, 1850 ibid ) was a Swiss pedagogue.

He studied in Lucerne and Würzburg theology, which he conceived with a philosophical sense. After he had done as a pastor and employee of the Helvetic government much for the school system, he was from 1804 to 1824 director of the primary schools of his native city. 1824 he was appointed as ministers to Bern, later as a professor of philosophy at the Lyceum of Lucerne, where the special covenant politician Bernhard Meyer was his favorite student.

In 1834 he returned to the monastery of his native city of Freiburg. The Pestalozzi 's ideas about education took him, since he had in 1810 in the official order of the Diet with others visited the institution to Yverdon and reports on them all to one. He was also known by promoting Lancasterschulen.

1850 ordered the government in Bern Freiburg sculptor Joseph Simon Girard Volmar for a monument. It was inaugurated ten years later, and then supplemented with reliefs of Raphael Christians.

Writings

• De l' enseignement de la langue maternelle régulier dans les écoles et dans la famille. Paris 1844.
• Éducatif Cours de langue maternelle. 6 volumes. Paris from 1840 to 1848.