Albert Wittstock

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Albert Wittstock

Albert Friedrich Wittstock (born August 20, 1837 in Wusterhausen , † January 16, 1903 in Leipzig ) was a German writer, educator and school principal .

Life

education

The son of a farmer grew up after the early death of his father († 1843) in Neuruppin , where he attended high school. He then studied theology and philology at the University of Berlin . In 1859 he passed the exam for the higher teaching post here.

Educational activity

Stations of his educational activity were Ödenburg , where he became a teacher at the German-Protestant high school in 1860. In 1861 he was tutor in Vienna , where he was close to Franz Schuselka and in 1862 published the yearbooks for the Protestant school system in Austria . As an employee of Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871) at the Institute for English Studies , he then completed his doctorate in philology at the University of Heidelberg . In 1865 he became a teacher at the high school in Frankfurt am Main . In order to prepare for an academic career in philology, he moved to Geneva in 1866 as a teacher at the institution international , went to London in 1867 and in 1868 as a teacher at the Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris .

When the Franco-Prussian War broke out , he returned to Germany in 1870 and took over the post of school director in Pößneck . There he met his future wife Thekla (1846–1941), who came from the Pößneck entrepreneurial family Conta.

From 1872 he was director of two elementary schools and head of a training school in Reudnitz . He made particular contributions to the establishment of the Reudnitzer Realschule , whose first director he was appointed in 1876 - while retaining his previous positions. In 1881 he resigned from the management of the secondary school for health reasons. In 1886 he was adopted into retirement.

Scientific activity

Albert Wittstock published scholarly works in the philological and educational field. Particular mention should be made of his “Encyclopedia of Pedagogy in Outline” , which he published in Heidelberg in 1865, and his “History of German Pedagogy in Outline. From the oldest times to the present ” from 1866. His translation of Mark Aurel's self- reflections from Greek , which he published in 1894 in the Reclam publishing house, is still the standard German translation today. He has also published prose works , poems and dramas .

Social activity

As a teacher, Albert Wittstock was particularly committed to the education of socially disadvantaged sections of the population. In 1899 he published a series of articles on the subject of "The Social Question and School" in the Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung . From his estate, Wittstock donated 10,000 marks in his will for the establishment of free spaces at the schools where he was rector in Reudnitz and 5,000 marks for the establishment of a children's institution in Mosen .

Honors and memberships

literature

  • The literary Leipzig. Illustrated manual for the world of writers and scholars, the press and the publishing book trade in Leipzig. W. Fiedler, Leipzig 1897, p. 131f.
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 8. Leipzig 1913, p. 8.
  • Curt Hänel (Ed.): Anniversary publication of the II. Municipal secondary school in Leipzig 1876–1926. Leipzig 1926.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Nekrolog zu Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1901–1935. De Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1936, column 803.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Another date: August 28, 1837. See: Stadtarchiv Leipzig (Hrsg.): Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen . Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1995, p. 226.
  2. ↑ Father: Carl Conta (1810–1892), porcelain manufacturer, owner of the Conta & Böhme company . See Christel Ziermann, Hans Walter Enkelmann: Pössneck. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2001, p. 93.
  3. ↑ General German teachers' newspaper. Vol. 51, 1899, Issues 39-42.
  4. ^ After the incorporation of Reudnitz in 1876, these were the 8th Citizens' School , the 9th District School and the 2nd Municipal Realschule in Leipzig.
personal data
SURNAME Wittstock, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittstock Albert Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, educator, secondary school director
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruppin
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1903
Place of death Leipzig