Anton Becker (Author)
Anton Becker (born November 11, 1868 in Budkau near Jamnitz , Moravia , † January 7, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian teacher, geographer and monument conservator.
Life
He was the son of the princely Liechtenstein estate director Max Becker and his wife Gabriela nee Suda. After attending grammar school in Iglau and Vienna IX, Anton Becker studied history and geography at the University of Vienna . He received his PhD in history as a Dr. phil. In 1893 he passed the teaching examination for geography and history and entered the Austrian school service. After employment in Ries (Upper Austria), Linz and Vienna IX, Anton Becker became a high school teacher in Oberhollabrunn. Then Becker became a professor at the Piaristengymnasium in Vienna VIII.
In 1909 Anton Becker became director of the kk Bildungsanstalt in Oberhollabrunn, where he had previously worked and where teachers for the Austrian civil service were trained. Only a short time later he moved to the Lower Austrian Teachers' Academy at the Pedagogy in Vienna. There he founded the Department of Geography. Anton Becker became state school inspector for Lower Austria and Vienna in 1913 and took early retirement as a teacher in 1922 at the age of 54.
From then on he devoted himself to his hobbies. In 1923 he became lecturer for geography teaching methodology at the University of Vienna and at the Universities of World Trade and Natural Resources and Life Sciences. With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 he gave up this function.
After the end of the Second World War, Anton Becker made himself available for the reconstruction of Austria and again worked at the Pedagogical Institute in Vienna, where he remained in service until 1948 and then finally retired.
Anton Becker was a member of the Geographical Society of Vienna and from 1930 until his death in 1955 president of the Association for Regional Studies and Homeland Protection of Lower Austria and Vienna. He also belonged to the Vienna Urania and the Museum of Folklore and the Lower Austrian State Museum and dealt with monument preservation.
Fonts (selection)
Anton Becker published in numerous specialist journals from educational, local history and geographical areas and published the two journals "Zeitschrift für Schulgeographie" and "Zeitschrift für Österreichisches Volksschulwesen". Especially for teachers, he wrote the “Guide to teaching excursions in the vicinity of Vienna”, of which four booklets have been published. In addition, the five booklets of the “Guide for educational hikes in the vicinity of Vienna”, written with Fritz Biffl, were published.
Honors
- 1928 Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1953 Gold Medal of Honor from the City of Vienna
- Plaque of honor for the state of Lower Austria
- Awarded the title of Hofrat
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 78.
Web links
- Anton Becker in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Lechner: Councilor Dr. Anton Becker † , in: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , 10. Vienna: Association for the History of the City of Vienna, 1955, page 13ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian teacher, geographer and monument conservator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budkau near Jamnitz , Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1955 |
| Place of death | Vienna |