Viktor Holtz

Viktor Holtz ( May 3, 1846 in Stolberg, † September 3, 1919 in Poznań ) was a German teacher and a pioneer of German -Japanese scientific and cultural relations.

He studied from 1865 to 1867 at the Royal Catholic teacher training college in Kempen, was then a teacher in Aachen and 1869 seminar teacher at school teacher seminar Boppard. The Prussian Minister of Education sent him because of his language skills and his other qualifications the end of 1870 for three years after Japan. Along with the more famous military doctors Eduard Hoffmann and Leopold Müller, he belonged to the first group of Germans who were sent from Prussia to higher schools of the new Meiji government.

He was the first Südhochschule Daigaku Nanko assigned from 1872 was Holtz ' school at least nominally independent. The name changed from First School of Foreign Learning, 2nd Middle School at German School. Holtz was the only teacher for all eleven subjects. Due to a change in the Japanese school policy, the school was incorporated in August 1873 in the Kaisei School, Holtz added at the same time for the rest of his contract, which was renewed twice for 8 months, at the Tokyo Medical School. So due to inconsistent educational planning, the pioneering experiment of a German school in Japan ended with no lasting impact.

Holtz came in 1875 back to Boppard and was transferred in 1877 to Prum, 1889 by Schrimm and 1902 to Poznan.

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• Education in Japan
• Teacher
• Person ( Aachen region )
• German
• Man
• Person ( German Empire )
• Meiji period
• Born in 1846
• Died in 1919