Paul Cauer

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Paul Eduard Ludwig Cauer (born December 17, 1854 in Breslau ; † November 26, 1921 in Münster in Westphalia ) was a German teacher, pedagogue and classical philologist .

Life

Cauer came from a family of teachers; his grandfather Ludwig Cauer (pedagogue) was the founder of the reformed pedagogical institute in Charlottenburg, his father Eduard Cauer was last city school councilor of Berlin (second marriage to the women's rights activist Minna Cauer ); his brother Friedrich Cauer also became a teacher and classical philologist. Paul Cauer's son was the mathematical historian Detlef Cauer , who died in the First World War in 1918 .

Paul Cauer studied classical philology in Leipzig, Strasbourg and Berlin, among others with Ernst Curtius , Friedrich Ritschl and Theodor Mommsen , and received his doctorate in 1875. A university career was prevented by a scathing review by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . Cauer became a high school teacher in Berlin, in 1884 a senior teacher in Kiel, where he completed his habilitation in 1890 and, in addition to his profession as a teacher, also worked as a university lecturer. In 1896 he became director of the Flensburg grammar school and secondary school; In 1898 he went to Düsseldorf in the same position at the secondary school there . Since 1905 Cauer was a provincial school councilor and honorary professor (for classical philology, from 1909 also for practical pedagogy and didactics) in Münster. In 1912 he left the school service, but continued teaching at the university.

Cauer was one of the defenders of the humanistic grammar school in the struggle for the reform of the higher school, which flared up in Prussia at the end of the 19th century, and emphasized the educational value of antiquity (this was the title of one of his works: Palaestra vitae. Das Altertum als Source of practical mental education ). He wanted the humanistic grammar school to exist alongside the “realistic” types of high school and opposed efforts to introduce a standardized school.

Cauer wrote numerous educational publications and school books. He also published the New Yearbooks for Pedagogy and, since 1910, the Homer Commentary known under the short name “Ameis-Hentze” .

Fonts (selection)

  • L. Logander (= Paul Cauer). A word for our foreign words. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel-Leipzig 1888.
  • Notes on the Odyssey. For the use of the students. 4 parts. Grote, Berlin 1894.
  • The art of translation. An auxiliary book for teaching Latin and Greek. Weidmann, Berlin 1894. 2nd, much improved and partly revised edition 1896
  • Palaestra vitae. A new task in the old classical teaching . Springer, Berlin 1902. Further editions in 1907 and 1913 (with the subtitle The ancient world as a source of practical intellectual education ).
  • The single school and its dangers. In: Pedagogical Archive. Monthly for education, teaching and science. Vol. 50 (1908), pp. 49-51 ( online ).
  • From work and life. Brought home. Weidmann, Berlin 1912.
  • Editor and epilogue: Όμήρου ἔπη, ἡ Ἰλιάς - ἡ Ὀδύσσεια (Homer's Epen Iliad - Odyssey , Greek edition, series " Libri Librorum "), Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1921

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SURNAME Cauer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cauer, Paul Eduard Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1921
Place of death Muenster