Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff

Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, Henri Ollendorff, (* 1803 in Rawicz in Poznan, † April 3, 1865 in Paris) was a German grammar writer and language teacher. His has become known as Ollendorff method Procedure for living foreign language learning for adults, elaborated in particular on the French, based on the method of French language educators Jean Manesca.

Life

As a young man Ollendorff emigrated to London, where he applied its own, different from the traditional way of teaching method of learning the German language, which he refined over the years to the Ollendorff method.

In 1830 he moved to Paris, where he published as a publisher of textbooks for different foreign languages. There, he adapted his teaching methods for the German and French for the Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek and other languages ​​.

His work Méthode de l' Allemand à l'Usage des Français, 1833 was approved by the French Minister of Education Narcisse - Achille de Salvandy for public instruction in French schools, which led to fierce controversy among intellectuals in France.

The inclusion in a work of Basil Halls ( Castle Grove field, or: . A winter in Styria, English A winter in Lower Styria, 1836) found its way soon great popularity.

Soon his works in Frankfurt am Main are more widespread than piracy because of there not current French copyright by publishing house Carl Jügel.

On the advice of Salomon Munk he sent his work to the University of Jena, which it awarded him a doctorate.

His method was to his lifetime an international success, and found after his death more than once entered the world literature.

So referenced Olle Dorffs teaching method, for example, by August Strindberg in the scandal amendment reward of virtue (1884 ). Here, the progressive method Olle Dorffs is applied at a girls' school, where the students already speak French after two years, while the male high school students after six years bring forth still no word. These justify their inability with a quote from Talleyrand: " La parole à l' homme a été donnée déguiser pour sa pensée " ( translation: the language is given to man to conceal his thoughts).

HG Wells also impressed in his novel The Island of Dr. Moreau ( 1896), the expression Olle village fish in allusion to its learning method.

Works

  • Petit Traité sur la Declinaison Allemande
  • Méthode à l' Allemand Appliquée (also translated into English and Gujarati )
  • Méthode de l' Allemand à l'Usage des Français, 1833
  • HG Ollendorff 's new method in six months to read a language, write and speak learn -. Edited by its grammar for English and to learn the French Speak for school and private lessons, 13th edition, Frankfurt, Carl Jügel 's Verlag, 1864, 613 pages
  • New method to read, write and learn to speak a language in six months. For the French, for the use of the German edited by Dr. HG Ollendorff, Eleventh, carefully improved original edition, Altenburg, Verlagshandlung HA Pierer, 1882
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