Adolph Diesterweg

Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg ( born October 29, 1790 in Siegen, † July 7, 1866 in Berlin) was a German pedagogue.

Professional development and significance for the educational system

Diesterweg was 1811-1813 House and secondary school teachers in Worms, from 1813 to 1818 in Frankfurt am Main, then to 1820 second rector in Elberfeld active ( today Wuppertal), since 1820 head of the teachers' college in Moers and 1832-1847 in Berlin. He was committed to the improvement of elementary school and entered for improved educational education and social recognition of the elementary school teacher. As a follower of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and propagator of his ideas he represented intuition and spontaneity as didactic principles. He gave these principles, however, a political tinting, through it has fixed target of the pre- formation of a responsible and critical citizen. The National Education won the character of the People's Liberation for Diesterweg.

In addition to his teaching activities Diesterweg was also involved in social policy. In 1844 went by him essential suggestions to the founding of the Central Association for the welfare of the working classes.

As a liberal school politician, he turned against both a strong religious and political influence over the formation. He called for a pedagogical- professional ( and not spiritual ) school supervision and a unified school organization, that is, he wanted to reach a professionalization of the teaching profession. He also fought for the relative autonomy of the school relative to the social forces. His great influence on the teachers of that time he owes mainly to its magazine Rheinische leaves for education and teaching, which he published from 1827 onwards, but also his yearbook for teachers and school friends from 1851.

For political reasons Diesterweg in 1850 shifted from the civil service retirement. From 1850 on, he visited several times the famous pedagogue Friedrich Froebel until his death in 1852 in Marienthal castle in Bad Love Stone. From 1858 to 1866 Diesterweg fought as a member of the Progressive Party in the Prussian parliament against the people Schuler Lasse Prussia.

Diesterweg authored 50 books and published around 400 papers. He also wrote several book reviews and aimed his publications for independent, critical and cosmopolitan and modern thinking from.

Adolph Diesterweg died at the age of 75 years, of cholera. His son Moritz Diesterweg founded the Diesterweg -Verlag.

Importance for the reform pedagogy

Winfried Böhm explains in his history of pedagogy that is " the idea of" nature-friendly "or" natural " education in the accompanying support natural maturation and growth processes especially in [ ] Diesterweg [ educational ] designed and conceptualized ".

This takes Diesterweg, according to Bohm, " many basic ideas and syntheses of the later reform education by nearly one hundred years in advance. In around 1820 violent confrontation led to naturalism or supernaturalism, education or church doctrine he takes massive party for naturalism. "

As Corker Diesterweg naturalism Böhm leads to the following:

Honors

Diesterweg was buried in the old St. Matthew's Cemetery in Berlin -Schöneberg in J, JS-001/002, G2 field. The tomb was until 2010, maintained as a memorial grave of Berlin, in whose care she was since 1952. A Senate resolution had previously limited the original permanent memorial grave status in time. Since then, there is a private grave sponsorship for Diesterweg resting place.

According to him, many schools, for example, the Diesterwegschule in Werdau, Bielefeld and Frankfurt am Main, roads and facilities and the public observatory Adolph Diesterweg were named in Radebeul.

Both the German Federal Post Office Berlin and the German Post of the GDR gave the 200th anniversary Diesterweg in 1990 a special stamp out.

Writings

  • Practical arithmetic book for elementary and higher civil schools. Elberfeld, Büschler 1828 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ) 1 exercise book, 13th edition 1841
  • 1 exercise book, 12th edition 1839.
  • 2 Workbook, 6th Edition 1840.
  • 3 exercise book, 1828th
  • First volume 1850 in the Google Book Search
  • Second volume in 1851 in the Google Book Search
  • Volume 1, The General in the Google Book Search USA = Internet Archive
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