August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph

August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph (born February 11, 1771 in Burgholzhausen , † June 15, 1826 in Zittau ) was a German educator.

Life

August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph was born as the son of Johann August Rudolph, pastor of Burgholzhausen. He taught him at home and prepared him for a visit to the grammar school in Weimar, which he attended from 1784 with the support of his mother's brother, businessman Christian Siegmund Rinder (1751–1829). His sub-principal at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium Weimar was Wilhelm Johann Christoph Lippold, the collaborator was a Christian. Rost, the secret chancellery Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roth taught him writing and arithmetic, he received further lessons from Vice Rector Johann Gottlob Samuel Schwabe, Professor Johann Karl August Musäus , and after his death, from Johann Friedrich Kästner, from Rector Johann Michael Heinze , teacher of the French language was Schmidt, he also had lessons from the court dance master Johann Adam Aulhorn and drawing lessons from several teachers from Georg Melchior Kraus .

In 1790/1791 he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Jena and heard lectures from Johann Jakob Griesbach , Johann Christoph Döderlein , Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow , Christian Gottfried Schütz , Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus and Carl Leonhard Reinhold .

Thanks to the support of his sponsor, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seebach, then cathedral dean and later cathedral provost of Naumburg , he came to the University of Wittenberg at Easter 1791, which he attended until 1793. He heard lectures from Franz Volkmar Reinhard , Friedrich Wilhelm Dresde , Johann Daniel Titius , Johann Matthias Schröckh , Johann Jacob Ebert , Konrad Gottlob Anton , Christian Friedrich von Matthäi , Johann Christian Henrici , Christian Friedrich Franke , Johann Georg Karl Klotzsch and Johann August Görenz .

Easter 1793 he received the Magister lib. art. and on June 11, 1794 he completed his habilitation as Magister legens ( acquired the right to hold lectures at a university through a public disputation ) and in November became adjunct of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Wittenberg, in 1796 he became university librarian and in 1798 he became dean of Appointed Philosophical Faculty.

On July 9, 1798, the city council of Zittau appointed him to succeed Karl Heinrich Sintenis (1744–1816) as rector of the local grammar school in Zittau , where he was appointed by the mayor Johann Friedrich Scholze (1735–1800) on November 13, 1798, who exercised the office of Oberscholarchen was introduced. At that time, the grammar school was transformed into a teaching facility that was intended exclusively to prepare students for university studies. For this purpose, August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph converted the two lower classes into a citizens' school. However, it was not until 1810, after difficult negotiations, that the state government ordered the separation and a “general city school” was founded. However, this redesign was not in the spirit of August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph and according to his ideas. Due to the excitement caused by this and the death of his first wife in 1808, traces of a disturbance in his mental health were already recognizable in 1809. These disturbances recurred again and again in shorter and longer periods of time, but did not prevent him from continuing his office or from his literary activity.

He also played a major role in the reform of the orphanage in 1814, and in 1817 he celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Reformation in a particularly festive manner in his grammar school.

In 1823, however, his health was so badly damaged that he applied for his retirement, which took place on July 30, 1823. In the period after his retirement his mental health improved, but his physical strength deteriorated, so that he died on June 15, 1826. His successor in the office of rector was Friedrich Lindemann .

August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph was married three times and outlived both his wives and most of his children.

Act

August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph was a staunch opponent of the method of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , who is considered a forerunner of visual education and whose educational goal was holistic popular education, but in his opinion this leads to superficiality. He has taken this point of view several times in school programs, but he himself also tried to improve high school pedagogy and wrote the programs de iuvene ad vitam academicam maturo in 1799 and Observationes Platonicae in 1804 .

In 1806 he first introduced the public Easter exams.

Memberships

In 1799 he became a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences .

Works

• Christian Friedrich von Matthäi ; August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Ocellus, Lucanus: Adornandae Editionis Ocelli Lucani Ratio Et Observationum Maxime Criticarum Ad Eum Specimen. Vitebergae: Tzschiedrichius, 1794.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Christian Traugott Simers: Natura repraesentationis in genere, intuitionem, sensationem, conceptum, notionem et ideam comprehendentis, ne exponi quidem recte potest. Vitebergae: Tzschiedrich, 1794.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Christian Traugott Simers: De historia ad modum scientiae tractanda. Wittenbergae: Tzschiedrich, 1796.
• Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig ; Johannes Heinrich Ludwig Helbing; August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Johann Siegmund Wittich: De Detractione Sanguinis In Morbis Apolectis: Dissertation Inauguralis Medica. Vitebergae: Literis Tzschiedrichii, 1797.
• Lucian, of Samosata ; August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph: Quaestio quomodo historia sit scribenda Graece. Lipsiae, sumtu EB Schwickerti, 1797.
• Nonnvlla praefatvs de philologia philosopho necessaria. Vitebergae, Literis Tzschiedrichii 1798.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Immanuel Benjamin Gottlieb Kretschmar; Christian Traugott Heffter: The memory of Mr. M. Immanuel Beniamin Gottlieb Kretschmar, former Diaconi II and early preacher to St. Petri and Pauli, who passed away blissfully on September 24th in 1799 and was buried on September 30th, dedicates these sheets as a monument to his respect. Zittau; Zeitz: Franke, 1799.
• Kellos, ho Leukanos; August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph: Okellos ho Leukanos Peri tēs tou pantos physeōs = Ocellvs Lvcanvs De rervm natvra. Graece. Lipsiae: Svmtv Engelh. Beniam. Scwickerti, 1801.
• How is self-thinking commendable? Zittau: Franke, 1801.
• Should the state separate the preparatory institutes of future civil servants from those of future scholars? Zittau: Franke, 1802.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Johann August Grünwald. When Johann August Grünwald passed away blissfully on January 25th, 1803, this sheet was dedicated to memory. Zittau: Printed by Gottlieb Benjamin Franke, 1803.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Johann Christoph Müller: To the memory of your esteemed colleague, Mr. Johann Christoph Müller, former Conrector and Bibliothecari emeritii, who slept blissfully on June 16, 1803, all colleagues of the Gymnasium dedicated this sheet out of respect and friendship. Zittau: Franke, 1803.
• News about the Zittauische Gymnasium: An invitation to the Küract, which with kind permission Es. High edl. and Hochw. Rathes is to be held on November 6th, 1804 in the morning from 9 a.m. in the lecture hall of the first class. Zittau: Franke, 1804.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Heinrich August Richter: To the memory of your esteemed colleague, Mr. Heinrich August Richter's, well-deserved sixth colleague at the local grammar school, who passed away blissfully on March 3rd in 1804, all colleagues of the grammar school dedicate this document as proof of their friendship. Zittau: Franke, 1805.
• Observationum Platonicarum. Zittauiae: Franke, 1805.
• News about the Zittauisches Gymnasium. Zittau 1806.
• De rerum et verborum discrimine. Zittauiae: Franke, 1811.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Christiane Friederike Sohns: In memory of a venerable mother Women Christianen Friedriken Sohns, geb. Böttger, Mr. Johann Joachim Sohn's wife widow, who passed away on February 23, 1812. Zittau: Müller, 1812.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Adolph Gottfried Gerlach: To the memory of your esteemed colleague, Mr. Adolph Gottfried Gerlach, a former citizen entitled to brew beer, fifth teacher at the local grammar school, who blissfully passed away on May 21st in 1814, all colleagues of the grammar school dedicate this sheet out of respect and friendship. Zittau: Franke, 1814.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Johann Gottlieb Schönfeld: The memory of your esteemed colleague, Mr. Johann Gottlieb Schönfeld, who passed away on March 18th blessedly in 1815, dedicate this sheet out of respect and friendship to the remaining 4 colleagues of the Gymnasium. Zittau: Franke, 1815.
• Arithmetic as material for practicing scientific thinking. Zittau: Franke, 1815.
• About purity of language. Zittau: Franke, 1816.
• Proof that the Holy Scriptures are clear to every righteous reader: along with an announcement d. Solemnities with which d. third anniversary of the Reformation is to be celebrated. Zittau: Raisin, 1817.
• Basic theory of the method of teaching: as an invitation to the public examination in the Gymnasio, which is to be held in the lecture hall of the first class on the 9th, 10th and 11th of March in 1818. Zittau: Franke, 1818.
• Necessary explanation of the review of his edition of Ocellus Lukanus in the Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, Vol. 71. Zittau, 1820.
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph; Traugott Leberecht Krug: The memory of your esteemed colleague, Mr. Traugott Leberecht Krug, who was a well-deserved Cantorio and fourth teacher at the local grammar school, who passed away blissfully on July 25th, is dedicated to the teachers of the grammar school out of respect and friendship. Zittau: Franke, 1821.
• De rationis usu recte temperando. Zittauiae: Franke, 1822.
• In memory of the deceased Mr. Director August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph: geb. February 11, 1771; died June 15, 1826. Zittau: Seyfert, 1826.
• Friedrich Lindemann: In memory of the immortalized Mr. August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph: he died on June 15th, 1826. Zittau: Seyfert, 1826.
• Directory of the book collection left by the deceased Mr. MAFW Rudolph: containing the Greek Fathers of the Church individually and in collections which, together with a double appendix of books, mixed and especially medical content, to be auctioned Tuesday, February 12, 1828. Zittau, 1828.

literature

• Otto Kaemmel:  Rudolph, Friedrich August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 572 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German biography: Rudolph, Friedrich August Wilhelm - German biography. Retrieved July 10, 2018 . 
2. ^ ADB: Rudolph, Friedrich August Wilhelm - Wikisource. Retrieved July 10, 2018 . 
3. ↑ August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph: News about the Zittauische Gymnasium, p. 6 . Franke, 1804 ( google.de [accessed July 10, 2018]).
4. ↑ Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian writers and artists who have died and are now living since the fifteen centuries. 2nd ed., P. 107 ff. Anton, 1803 ( google.de [accessed on July 11, 2018]).