Auguste Möder

Auguste Möder (born March 2, 1830 in Eisenach ; † October 15, 1897 there ) was a German educator and writer .

Life

Sophie Karoline Auguste was the eldest of seven children of building inspector Christian Friedrich Möder and his wife Christiane Therese Möder, née. Armor. She attended the girls' school at Charlotte Hoße and graduated from the Dr. Marquardt trained as a teacher. She then went to London's Miss Bryan's College as a teacher . There she ran a school for one year (1856/1857) and founded a kindergarten. She also published educational articles in English magazines. After a short stay in Paris, Auguste Möder returned to Eisenach and passed the school principal examination there in 1858. In the same year she took over the educational institution of her former teacher Charlotte Hoße,

“... from which she developed her own teaching and educational institution. This initially comprised a boarding school, combined with 'advanced training classes'. With the increasing number of day pupils and retirees ... it soon became necessary to introduce school classes for several age groups. Auguste Möder built the institution more and more into a whole that was structured like a school ... The well-known girl's book The Defiant Head ... vividly describes life in this institution. Else Wildhagen , the daughter of the author Emmy von Rhoden ... attended school as a day pupil. "

In addition to the girls' boarding school (nickname Möderei ), Möder took over the kindergarten in 1858, which Julie Traberth led from then on . The Möderei became a secondary school for girls in 1867 with up to 2,000 domestic and foreign students from higher social classes.

Services

As a headmistress and teacher, she quickly became aware of the lack of suitable school festivals. Therefore, she wrote several dramatic youth and fairy tale games, which enjoyed great popularity far beyond Eisenach. In addition, Auguste Möder, together with his friends Eleonore Heerwart and Julie Traberth, was committed to Friedrich Fröbel's pedagogy and practical implementation in the facilities she ran. She organized courses in which she conveyed Froebel's ideas to mothers and kindergarten teachers. Möder belonged to the group of Friends of Froebel's educational principles and was involved in the founding of the Froebel Association for Thuringia (1859), from which the German Froebel Association later emerged. She was also a co-founder of the General International Kindergarten Teachers Association and was one of the founders of the association magazine Kindergarten , one of the first specialist magazines for kindergarten.

Works (selection)

• The haunted. The rose miracle of St. Elisabeth, Kassel 1879
• Sleeping Beauty. Fairy tale poetry, Eisenach 1891
• Grete. Fairy tale poem in three parts, Eisenach 1894
• Spring quarrel with winter, Eisenach 1896
• Poems (Ed .: Eleonore Heerwart and Elizabeth S. Wood), Eisenach 1898

literature

• Felicitas Marwinski (Ed.): Paths of life in Thuringia. Third collection . Weimar 2006, p. 227-231 .
• Urania cultural and educational association Gotha eV (Ed.): Eisenacher personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 97 .
• Möder, Miss Auguste . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 51 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marwinski 2006, p. 229