Alexander Wernicke

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Friedrich Alexander Wernicke (born January 3, 1857 in Görlitz , † March 30, 1915 in Braunschweig ) was a German schoolboy and university professor .

Life

Alexander Wernicke was born in Görlitz in Upper Lusatia in 1857 . His father Adolph Wernicke (1829–1895) was a trade teacher and later director of the secondary school in Gliwice in Upper Silesia . After graduating from high school in 1874, Wernicke studied mathematics, natural sciences, philosophy and German studies in Heidelberg , Berlin and Göttingen from 1875 to 1879 and 1881 . He passed the state examination in Berlin and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . After the military and probationary year, he completed his habilitation in 1881 at the Technical University of Braunschweig for mathematics and philosophy with a thesis on Kant research . He worked in Braunschweig as a high school teacher from 1882 and as a lecturer at the educational seminar from 1891. In addition, he continued to give lectures at the Technical University, where he was appointed associate professor of mechanics in 1890 .

In 1894 Wernicke was appointed director of the Oberrealschule , later the Herzog-Johann-Albrecht-Oberrealschule (from 1913) and today's Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Schule . He campaigned for the establishment of a second upper secondary school, the Städtische Realschule für Junge ( municipal secondary school for boys ), which was launched in 1909 and later the Gaußschule (since 1911). Wernicke promoted the establishment of commercial training. He received the title of High School Councilor for his work in the school board . Wernicke made a name for himself as a fighter for equal coexistence of the higher school forms. As a pedagogue, Wernicke saw the school reform as part of the social reform . His aim was the philosophical penetration of mathematical instruction and the education in an active idealism based on a national humanism . From 1906 to 1908 he was chairman of the association of academically educated teachers in Germany . In the International Mathematical Teaching Commission (IMUK) founded in 1908 , he campaigned for the connection between mathematics teaching and philosophical propaedeutics . Wernicke last lived in the street Hintern Brothers in Braunschweig. He died there in March 1915 at the age of 58.

Fonts (selection)

  • The theory of the object and the doctrine of the thing-in-itself in Immanuel Kant . 1881.
  • Philosophy as a descriptive science . Goeritz and zu Putlitz, Braunschweig 1882.
  • Fundamentals of elementary mechanics . 1883.
  • Culture and school . 1896.
  • with Max Osterloh : The class building for physics and chemistry of the municipal high school in Braunschweig . Meyer, Braunschweig 1897. ( digitized version )
  • The high school and its so-called monopoly . In: Pedagogical archive, monthly for upbringing and teaching, at the same time central organ for the entire interests of the Realschulwesen , 39, 6 (1897), pp. 413-440.
  • Richard Wagner as an educator . H. Beyer, 1899.
  • World economy and national education . 1900.
  • Textbook of mechanics of solid bodies . 3 volumes. 1901-1903.
  • Kant ... and no end? . Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1907.
  • The Oberrealschule and the current school reform issues . Teubner, 1910.
  • Mathematics and philosophical propaedeutics . Teubner, Leipzig 1912.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wernicke, Alexander, Dr. phil., school councilor, professor, director of the Herzog-Johann-Albrecht-Oberrealschule, behind brothers 30 . In: Braunschweig address book for the year 1914 . Publishers Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1914, p. 466.
personal data
SURNAME Wernicke, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wernicke, Friedrich Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German schoolboy and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1915
Place of death Braunschweig