August Israel

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August Israel (born March 31, 1836 in Eibau , † August 25, 1906 in Blasewitz ) was a German educator and philanthropist .

Live and act

August Israel was born on March 31, 1836 as the eldest of six children of a master finisher in Eibau. During his school days in his home village, he received piano lessons. He then attended the proseminar in Zittau from 1851 and the rural class seminar in Bautzen from 1852 to become a teacher. At the age of 20 he completed his seminar training and worked as an assistant teacher in Zittau. After two years he followed a call to Annaberg , where he worked as a practice school teacher and later as a senior teacher at the local teacher training college.

There he met Laura Peucker (1831–1901). The two married in 1859.

In 1866 he was given a temporary leave of absence from school to study education in Leipzig and returned to Annaberg a year later.

Israel was the first director of the newly founded teachers' college in Zschopau from 1869 to 1898 .

After his retirement he moved with his wife to Blasewitz near Dresden, where she died on April 13, 1901. She was buried in the Zschopau cemetery.

On August 25, 1906, August Israel died in Blasewitz and was also buried in Zschopau on August 28, 1906, with great sympathy from the residents. The grave slab is now in the possession of the Zschopau grammar school.

August Israel was a member of the General Saxon Teachers 'Association and founded the Saxon seminar teachers' association, of which he was chairman until his retirement. He also set up the Zschopau teachers' association, whose monthly meetings he led for 25 years. Furthermore, he was the founder and long-time director of the Zschopau children's institution, a member of the school committee, the church council and the regional synod of the Protestant church. He undertook 29, mostly four-week trips to the Alps and was a member of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . He managed the library of the seminar with more than 12,000 volumes himself.

Honors and honors

  • 1881: On March 31, 1881, an "August Israel Foundation" was set up from donations from 92 former seminarians. Of the interest, u. a. Funding grants for particularly successful seminarians.
  • 1885: Appointment to the school council
  • 1892: Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit
  • 1894: Appointment to the high school board and honorary citizen of the city of Zschopau
  • 1905: For his Pestalozzi bibliography published in 1903/1904, the University of Zurich awarded him the honorary doctorate of Dr. phil. hc

Works (selection)

  • Key to determining the wild plants growing in the area of ​​Annaberg-Buchholz Rudolph & Dieterici Annaberg 1862 (second edition 1866)
  • Annual reports on the royal school teacher seminar in Zschopau , Paul Strebelow publishing house, later FA Raschke publishing house, Zschopau, 1871–1898, including:
    • Translation of a text by Erasmus of Rotterdam : "Lecture on the necessity of having boys educated morally and scientifically from birth in a manner worthy of the freeborn" 2nd annual report, 1872
    • Basic lines of elementary teaching methodology 5th Annual Report, 1875
    • Contribution to the history of elementary teaching methodology in the 17th century 7th annual report, 1877
    • Erhard Weigel's pedagogical endeavors 14th annual report, 1884
    • M. Valentin Weigel's life and writings. 18th to 20th annual report on the occasion of Weigel's 300th anniversary of death, 1888–1890.
    • Attempt to compile writings by and about Pestalozzi , 24th Annual Report 1894
  • Collection of pedagogical writings from the 16th and 17th centuries that have become rare, Verlag FA Raschke Zschopau, 13 issues 1879–1884
  • Scattered leaves , FA Raschke Zschopau, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the seminar, 1894
  • Pestalozzi's writings and letters according to the sequence of times , Verlag Hoffmann and Comp. Berlin, 1903–1904
    • First volume: Pestalozzi's writings
    • Second volume: Pestalozzi's letters
    • Third volume: Writings and essays on Pestalozzi

literature

  • Reinhold Timme: High School Councilor August Israel - a contribution to the 100th birthday. In: Heimatklänge , No. 146, February 29, 1936
  • Erhard Seifert: … a fruit that remains - the work of August Israel (1836–1906) as a teacher, writer and natural scientist. In: Publications of the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz , Volume 29 (2006) pp. 33–82
  • Ronald Scherzer:  Dr. hc August Israel - an honorary citizen of the city of Zschopau - STADT KURIER Zschopau, March 26, 2014, p. 26 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note: At Israel's instigation, on June 10, 1888, a bronze plaque in memory of the Zschopau pastor Valentin Weigel (1533–1588) was attached to an altar pillar of the Zschopau church. Weigel's original grave slab was lost in the fire in 1748. It contained u. a. the saying "O man, get to know yourself and God, so you have enough here and there". In 1990, a memorial plaque was placed on the outer wall of the Zschopau church in memory of Weigel.
personal data
SURNAME Israel, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Eibau
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1906
Place of death Blowjoke