Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel

Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel , (born December 29, 1773 in Stuttgart , † August 13, 1838 in Esslingen ), was a German educator .

Life

Denzel went to the seminar at the monastery school in Denkendorf and at Maulbronn monastery . From 1792 he studied at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen theology and was an educator and tutor in Frankfurt am Main and assistant priest in Neunkirch .

In 1802 he went to Switzerland and became a pastor in Schaffhausen until he returned to Pleidelsheim as a pastor in 1806 . In 1811 he was appointed inspector of the newly established school teachers' college and at the same time transferred to Esslingen as a deacon, and attracted attention when he tried to reform school lessons in the sense of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, whom he knew personally, so that the government of the Duchy of Nassau gave him the job in 1817 to reorganize the school system there. Soon afterwards he was appointed director and first teacher of the seminary in Esslingen and at the same time received the character of a professor from his government , and from the Duchy of Nassau that of a high school councilor. In 1832 he was promoted to prelate . Denzel contributed significantly to the spread of Pestalozzi's idea of elementary education in southern Germany .

Works

• Experiences and views on the vocational training of elementary school teachers, with special reference to the Protestant seminar in Eßlingen for the purpose of discussing and implementing the new Württemberg school law (Stuttgart 1836)
• Introduction to elementary school studies and school practice for teachers in German elementary schools (Part 2, Stuttgart 1819)
• On the state of the elementary school system in Protestant Württemberg and its contemporary improvement (Eßlingen 1818)
• Introduction to education and teaching for elementary school teachers (1817)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1262.
• Erich Müller-Gaebele, Thomas Wiedenhorn: The beginnings of the state teacher training institute in Esslingen - Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel and the "model plant" of the Württemberg teacher training . In: Thomas Wiedenhorn, Ursula Pfeiffer-Blattner (ed.): 200 years of state teacher training in Württemberg. To institutionalize state teacher training . Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 19–42
• Christian Palmer :  Denzel, Bernhard Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 58.
• Hans Schuster: Regular lessons and world studies with Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel
• Arnold Stenzel:  Denzel, Bernhard Gottlieb von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , pp. 603-605 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel  in the German Digital Library