August Lomberg

August Lomberg (born August 10, 1859 in Wülfrath , † September 26, 1945 in Haan ) was a German school principal and textbook author.

Life

August Lomberg was the son of a home weaver who had a small library. The parental home was outside the center of Wülfrath in the Eschen. He lived here for ten years and attended a three-class elementary school in Wülfrath. The conditions at the elementary school became an impetus for him to strive for school reforms.

Lomberg's father was no longer making enough money home weaving. Therefore he stopped the home weaving and took a position as a master in a textile factory in Barmen-Rittershausen . In 1869 the family moved to Barmen . Lomberg's mother died in 1871, the father in 1875.

From 1876 to 1879 Lomberg attended a teacher training college in Moers . After that, he worked most of the time as the principal of a girls' school located on Baustraße in Barmen. In addition, he taught preparations and seminarians. Lomberg followed the views represented by Johann Friedrich Herbart early on . He took over the writing of an association for Herbartic pedagogy in Rhineland and Westphalia, which he co-founded. He himself wrote the invitations for the general meetings. At the first general meeting in 1886 he gave a lecture “About school hikes in terms of educational teaching”. He expanded his lecture and published it as a book in 1893. His essays on problems that had to be solved because of the changes in the school system were published in the "Deutsche Blätter für Erziehenden Studium".

In retirement, Lomberg moved to Haan. Together with his wife Johanne, née Henkel (1870–1958), he was buried in the Protestant cemetery on Alleestraße.

Works

Lomberg became a well-known and respected educator who also dealt with local history. He wrote 30 books, which found about 250,000 buyers. There were also many essays.

As an educator

Lomberg was commissioned by the government to create a "reading book that meets the demands of the times". Together with the Barmer teacher Karl Rumscheidt, a two-volume “Niederrheinisches Lesebuch für Evangelische Volksschulen” (Lower Rhine Reading Book for Protestant Elementary Schools) was created. From 1896 to 1915 the Beyer-Verlag from Bad Langensalza published Lomberg's main work with “Preparations for German Poems”. It provided preparation for dealing with literary works by old and new authors. The book was intended for teachers, but also suitable for other people interested in literature. The ten-volume work was published in two editions. In addition, he put together new, old and humorous poems for school lessons. There were also individual editions of three-part choral movements.

As a local historian

After the First World War, Lomberg published on the history of the Bergisches Land.

• In “What Us Die Hardt Tells” he wrote on topics that are likely to have been of particular interest to the residents of Barmen and Elberfeld.
• In 1921 he wrote about “Bergische Männer. A contribution to the history of the homeland ”. At the end of the 20th century, these articles about Bergische personalities of the 18th and 19th centuries were still considered reputable sources for the people described in them.
• In 1922 he started the series “Bergische Heimatbücher”. These included "Bergische Heimatbücher", "Nice old children's songs, riddles and proverbs" as well as "Schwänke und Purren". While the first three books were more like literature, he wrote a fourth volume, which was more demanding and took up the topics of the "Bergischen men" again.
• The fourth volume with the title "Pictures from the history of the Bergisch region from Roman times to the transition to Prussian rule" was published in 1922.

In retirement in Haan, Lomberg continued his local history work.

• In 1928 he wrote the “Heimatbuch der Gartenstadt Haan”.
• The homeland book “When I was still the ash boy came from 1935. Childhood memories from Wülfrath and the surrounding area ”. With this book he began the "Bergische Heimatschriften". The last publications they contained were “Bergische Sprachsünden. Eine Scheltrede ”from 1935 and“ More understanding of our “Bergisch Platt!” An introduction to the native language of the homeland with samples of dialect poetry ”, published in 1938.

literature

• Hermann Banniza: Reform pedagogue and local researcher: August Lomberg . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1990 . 60th year. Heider-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1989, pp. 140-142.