August Wilhelm Grube (writer)

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August Wilhelm Grube (born December 16 or 17, 1816 in Wernigerode ; † January 28, 1884 in Bregenz ) was a German pedagogue and writer who became known primarily for his publications on arithmetic methods and popular works.

Life

Board at the house where Grube was born in Wernigerode

August Wilhelm Grube was born the son of a master tailor in Wernigerode. After visiting the high school in his hometown, he went to the teachers' college in Weißenfels . After graduation, he began his service as an assistant teacher at the community school in Merseburg in 1836 , but gave up this position due to sickness.

From 1840 to 1843 he worked as a tutor for the district president and later Prussian interior minister, Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg . He then worked as a private tutor with Baron von Kleist in Bohemia, and from 1848 on permanently with a factory owner in Hard ( Vorarlberg ). In the neighboring city of Bregenz, he retired in 1866 to work as a freelance writer . In 1868 he was one of the founding members of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings .

Board at the Schedler residence in Bregenz

Grube remained unmarried and bequeathed his fortune to his hometown, which named a street after him. There are also memorial plaques for him on his birthplace at Büchtingenstrasse 27 and on the benefactor's fountain on the market square in Wernigerode and on his retirement home in Bregenz (Vorarlberg).

Fonts

  • Educational studies and reviews for teachers and educators. Mixed articles from the years 1845–60 . 1860 ( digitized version )
  • Guide to arithmetic in elementary school
  • Character images from history and legend (part 1–3) (digital version of the 20th edition, 1877)
  • Biographies from natural history
  • Geographical character images (parts 1–3) (digitized version of 1875 edition)
  • Biographical thumbnails

literature

  • Rolf Braun: August Wilhelm Grube. Math class and education. The monographic method AW Grube as a didactic-methodical concept of an educational arithmetic lesson, at the same time a contribution to the history of elementary school didactics of mathematics. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1979 (= Europäische Hochschulschriften, series 11. 68) ISBN 3-8204-6503-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings, statutes and list of members from December 1868: Stadtarchiv Lindau, B II / 85/4, acts of the city council, subject Bodensee-Geschichts-Verein, Tit. IV., Cap. 11, compartment 85, act 4.
personal data
SURNAME Grube, August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1816 or December 17, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1884
Place of death Bregenz