Emmi Pikler

Emilie " Emmi " Pikler ( born January 9, 1902 in Vienna, † June 6, 1984 in Budapest, born Emilie Madeleine Reich) was a Hungarian pediatrician who broke new ground in early childhood education in the 20th century.

Journey

Emilie Reich was born in 1902 in Vienna and spent her early childhood. Her mother, a Viennese, was a kindergarten teacher by profession, her father a Hungarian, was a craftsman. 1908 her parents moved to Budapest. When Emma was twelve years old, her mother died.

Your decision to become a pediatrician, led to medical school back to Vienna. She received her PhD in 1927 and received her pediatric specialist training at the Vienna University Children's Hospital at Clemens von Pirquet, and at the Pediatric Surgery at Hans Salzer.

Emmi Pikler " third teacher " was her own husband, a mathematician and educator, through whose experiences it was confirmed in its developmental physiological considerations. Together, they decided at the birth of their first child, to allow him to move freely and to await its development in patience. At first they lived in Trieste, later in Budapest. 1935 Emmi Pikler was recognized as a pediatrician in Hungary. From the beginning, their goal was to enable a healthy development of the child. From the experience with her ​​daughter, she knew that a child must not be excited to movements and to the game and that every detail in dealing with the child and its environment is important. Even in those years Emmi Pikler has lectured about the care and education of infants and toddlers and written various articles. The result was her first book for parents. It was published in 1940 and later experienced in Hungary and abroad in numerous editions. The ten years that she worked as a family doctor, were hard for them not only because of her Jewish origin, but also because her husband from 1936 to 1945 was for political reasons in captivity. Through the help of the parents of children served by her could she and her family the persecution of Jews during World War II to survive.

After the war she became a mother of two other children. Do not opened her private practice again, but took care of within a Hungarian organization for abandoned and malnourished children. In addition to many other activities, she founded in 1946 the infant home Lóczy, which she ran until 1979. Emmi Pikler continued after retirement continues its educational and advisory work in Lóczy. The focus of their interest was the ongoing motor development of the infant, which was also the topic of her habilitation in 1969. Her work came in the last years of her life at home and abroad more and more recognition.

Died in 1984 Emmi Pikler after a short illness.

Pedagogical approach

Emmi Pikler was encouraged in their pedagogical beliefs, as they in Budapest by Elfriede Hengstenberg, the operation of Elsa and Heinrich Jacoby met Gindler 1935. Elfriede Hengstenberg in 1931 pointed out based on the findings Gindler Jacoby and how necessary it is to explore the inherent laws of child development in order to get the child his original powers and abilities. Gindler and Jacoby had recognized in the 1920s, the extent to which the usual infant and early childhood education initiative of children handicapped, withers their expressiveness and dependent, awkward, movement and attitude impaired people make of them. Also our largely disturbed relationship to work and learning was a consequence of the lack of knowledge of human nature for them. The results of practical and scientific work Emmi Pikler have again confirmed the idea Gindler and Jacoby of the possibility of an undisturbed development of the child.

Lóczy Institute

1946, he founded Emmi Pikler in Budapest Lóczy the Institute. Under her guidance and by the results for the prevention of nosocomial as well as by the publication of books and scientific publications, there has been an internationally known methodological Institute, which is now run by her daughter, the child psychologist Anna Tardos.

Publications

• Be familiar with each other. Experiences and thoughts for the care of infants and young children ( editor: Anna Tardos, Lienhard & Laura Valentin). Arbor Verlag, free Office 2002 / 3rd edition ISBN 3-933020-04-2
• Let me time. The independent movement of the child's development up to the free walking. Test results, essays and lectures. ( With Anna Tardos ). Pflaum, Munich 2001 / 3rd edition ISBN 379050842X
• Peaceful baby - happy mothers. Educational advice of a pediatrician. Herder, Freiburg 2008 / 9th edition ISBN 9783451049866