Wilhelm Rein

Wilhelm Rein ( born August 10, 1847 in Eisenach, † February 19, 1929 in Jena ) was a German pedagogue. He is regarded as the most influential and at the same time last representative of Herbartianism.

Life

Rein was born the fifth of six children of secondary school professor and archaeologist Wilhelm Rein (1809-1865) and his wife Luise Dorothea Christiana ( 1815-1887 ). Since 1857, he attended the Carl- Friedrich-Gymnasium in Eisenach, where he took in 1866 the school leaving examination.

Then took clean for the summer semester 1866 study of Protestant theology at the University of Jena, where he heard alongside education lectures of Herbartianers Karl Volkmar Stoy, whom he followed in the fall of 1867 for a year at the University of Heidelberg. In the winter semester 1868/ 69 zurückgehrt to Jena he was still in 1868 a member of the fraternity Arminia on the castle basement and put it in the summer of 1869, the theological candidate from examination.

After that, clean applied permanently to the education and went to the winter semester 1869/70 at the University of Leipzig to hear Tuiskon Ziller, at the training school, he first worked as an intern, then as a teacher. Because factual differences with Ziller moved in 1871 to the net secondary school Barmen, where he was strongly influenced by Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld. After his first dissertation was rejected at the universities of Leipzig and Bonn, he was finally in 1872 with a thesis on Herbart government, education and breeding at the University of Rostock Dr. phil. doctorate.

Also in 1872 he was senior teacher seminar in Weimar and 1876 seminar director in Eisenach. In 1886 he was appointed Honorary Professor in 1912 to full professor in Jena. He built the founded by Stoy Educational Seminar together with training school into a center of international reputation from established holiday courses for teacher training and promoted the folk high school movement. He gave the Herbart - Ziller 's formal stages, the German names: preparation, presentation, link, summary, application. One of his pupils was Hermann Lietz, founder of Landerziehungsheime.

In addition to its educational activities, clean engaged politically. He was a member of Friedrich Naumann's National Social Association, for which he drew up in 1898 a zunkunftsweisendes school program that, among other things, a general elementary school, a mandatory training school from 14 to 18 years, financial support talented students to visit secondary schools and a general Lehrmittelfreiheit called for and advocated a strengthening of the public school teaching profession.

After his death, he was buried at the North Cemetery in Jena.

Writings (selection )

• With pimples and E. A. Scheller: theory and practice of teaching elementary school after herbartischen principles. 8 volumes. Dresden / Leipzig 1878ff.
• Education in plan. Leipzig 1890.
• Fine Art and Teaching: A study on the inside of the education reform. Dresden 1902. Digitized edition
• Floor plan of ethics. Osterwieck 1902.
• Pedagogy in a systematic representation. 2 vols. Langensalza 1902ff.
• Fundamentals of pedagogy and didactics. Leipzig 1909.
• (Eds.): Handbook of Encyklopädisches pedagogy. 7 volumes. Langensalza 1895ff. (2nd edition: 11 volumes Langensalza 1903ff. ).