Andreas Reyher

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Andreas Reyher with his family, portrait of August Erich (1643)
Location of the birth house in Heinrichs, which burned down in 1634
Tomb of his great-grandson Johann Andreas Reyher (1718–1754)
Grave slab Katharina Reyhers, b. Eaters

Andreas Reyher (* 4th May July / 14th May  1601 greg. In Heinrichs ; † 2 April July / 12 April  1673 greg. In Gotha ) was a German educator .

Life

Reyher came from a merchant family. His father was the wine merchant Michael Reyher (1557–1634), his mother Ottilie Albrecht (d. 1619). From 1621 to 1625 Reyher studied philology and Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig , in 1627 he obtained his master's degree. After that he began to give lectures. In 1631 he was accepted as a lecturer in the philosophy faculty of Leipzig University; During this time his first publications also fell.

In 1632 Reyher became head of the Hennebergisches Gymnasium in Schleusingen , and in 1639 in Lüneburg . In 1641 he was appointed rector of the illustrious grammar school in Gotha, where he remained (also as an advisor to Duke Ernst the Pious ) until his death. His task in Gotha was the reorganization of the school system in the duchy in accordance with the teaching of Wolfgang Ratke .

In 1644 Duke Ernst the Pious entrusted him with the management of the Peter Schmid book printing company, which later became Engelhard-Reyher's court book printing company .

Services

The school laws and methodological instructions for school regulations that were created with Reyher's collaboration were an important basis for a uniform educational system in the lower schools . Reyher was the first to enforce compulsory schooling as a state law for all subjects in a German duchy. Through him, natural sciences and civics found their way into popular education.

Reyher also made great contributions to the development of the school system with the development of curricula and textbooks , which were used as the main teaching material for teaching. His textbooks were widely used in Germany and also in other European countries.

The school system in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha was the only one of its kind in Germany until the 18th century and served as a model for the educational system in other small German states . It became a saying that the Duke's peasants were more educated than the nobles in other areas.

The name Andreas Reyhers is also associated with the founding of the first print shop in Gotha , one of the oldest print shops in Thuringia . Not only was he the author of numerous textbooks and other theoretical works, but he was also his own publisher and printer .

family

On May 6, 1633, Reyher married Katharina Abesser (1612–1657), the daughter of Suhl's superintendent Sebastian Abesser . Of the couple's twelve children (seven sons and five daughters), seven experienced adulthood:

  • Samuel Reyher (1635-1714)
  • Andreas Reyher the Elder J. (1637-1690)
  • Salomon Reyher
  • Christoph Reyher (1642–1724)
  • Johannes Reyher
  • Michael Reyher (1653–1673)
  • Catharina Reyher

After the death of his first wife in 1657, Reyher married Anna Blandine Bachoff (1636–1670), daughter of the Gotha ministerial collector Friedrich Bachoff, on January 18, 1659. From this marriage there were three sons and three daughters, but only the sons reached adulthood:

  • Christian Reyher
  • Ernst Reyher
  • Ephraim Reyher (d. 1719)

Honors

In honor Reyhers the city Gotha named in 1900 the Reyherschule and a street after him.

Others

Andreas Reyher found his final resting place in Gotha Cemetery I (also called Alter Gottesacker ) between Werderstrasse (today Bohnstedtstrasse) and Eisenacher Strasse. When the cemetery was cleared in 1904 for the construction of the Stadtbad and Arnoldischule , the gravestone of his first wife Katharina Abesser was secured. It was let into the back of the waiting hall of the new main cemetery , where it can still be seen today. The stones for his grandchildren Johann Andreas Reyher (1718–1754), Gotthilff Ephraim Reyher (1706–1752), Elisabeth Catharina Reyher (1709–1716), Agnetta Eleonora Reyher (1711–1739) and Johann Christian Reyher (1721) are also set there -1751).

Works

  • Special and special drivers report on how the boys and girls in the village and in the towns, who are among the lowest group of school children in the Principality of Gotha, can and should be taught briefly and usefully . Gotha 1642. Reprinted by Raschke, Zschopau 1883.
  • Realienbuch Gotha 1657.

literature

  • Annette Gerlach, Cornelia Hopf, Susanne Werner: Magister Andreas Reyher (1601–1673). Manuscripts and prints. Inventory . Research and State Library, Gotha 1992.
  • Gerd Hohendorf: On the influence of Ratichian and Comenian pedagogical theories on the Gotha school method of Andreas Reyher (1624) . In: Gerd and Ruth Hohendorf: Diesterweg obliges. Contributions to German educational history . Böhlau, Cologne 1994, pp. 36–43, ISBN 3-412-08393-3 .
  • Paul Mitzenheim: On the effects and aftermath of the Reformation in the Henneberger Land as well as on the effectiveness of Andreas Reyher as rector of the Schleusinger grammar school . In: Blätter des Verein für Thüringische Geschichte 7 (1997), 1, pp. 20–28.
  • Manfred Weidauer: Andreas Reyher (1601–1673): arithmetic book author and reform pedagogue . In: Rainer Gebhardt (Hrsg.): Arithmetic books and mathematical texts of the early modern times. Proceedings of the scientific colloquium "Arithmetic books and mathematical texts of the early modern times" on the occasion of the 440th anniversary of the death of mathematician Adam Ries, from 16.-18. April 1999 in the Berg and Adam Ries town of Annaberg-Buchholz . Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 1999, pp. 323-330, ISBN 3-930430-31-2 .
  • Andreas M. Reyher: Magister, pedagogue, school reformer 1601–1673. Festschrift for the 400th birthday on May 4, 2001 . Suhl-Information, Suhl 2001.
  • Max Berbig :  Reyher, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 322-325.
  • Claus Bernet :  Andreas Reyher. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1121-1139.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Reyher, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH Heinrichs (Suhl)
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1673
Place of death Gotha