Bohny's new picture book
Bohny's Neues Bilderbuch is a classic picture book by Nikolaus Bohny.
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Designed Bohny's new picture book by the Swiss educator Nicholas (or Niklaus) Bohny (1815 to 1856). Not much is known about Bohny's life. An apprenticeship contract from 1822 between Niklaus Bohny and Wilhelm Müller-Mathys, who apparently trained numerous future teachers, has survived. Bohny later worked as a teacher in Basel . He published other educational picture books.
The new picture book
The first edition of the horizontal format New Picture Book with 36 pages and over 400 color illustrations appeared in 1847 or 1848, numerous other editions and translations into many languages followed. At the time of the 16th German-language edition there was also a Brazilian, an English, a French, a Greek, an Italian, a Dutch, a Russian and a Hungarian version of the book. The pictures for Bohny's texts were redrawn and updated at least three times, the third time for the 16th edition of the book. The German editions were published by the Esslinger Schreiber-Verlag ; Reprints were also issued in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Bohny, who saw himself in Pestalozzi's tradition , designed the book as “instructions for looking, thinking, arithmetic and speaking for children from two and a half to seven years” and provided it with a foreword and a kind of instruction manual. The reason why the picture book is new, he wrote in the foreword, is because his key questions about the pictures, which are printed for the adults, put counting and order in the foreground. The children should be encouraged to look at the pictures printed in two to three rows per page in detail, to name numerical relationships and distinguishing features and to solve simple arithmetic problems.
On pages 1 to 4 the number range from 1 to 5 is illustrated. These five numbers are used on pages 5 to 16. Addition and subtraction problems as well as the decomposition of numbers are the subject of these pages. On pages 17 to 20 the number 6 is added, on pages 21 to 24 the number 7, on pages 25 to 28 the number 8, on pages 29 to 32 the number 9 and on pages 33 to 36 the number 10. Some of the tasks on the last pages encourage you to work with the number range above 10. From page 25 on, you can also find multiplication and division problems. However, Bohny attached importance not only to solving arithmetic problems, but also to developing the children's ability to express themselves in language: “Because language is the means by which the outside world can be made to understand the children. The children should look at first, then think about what they saw and learn to pronounce what they thought correctly. ”It was also important for Bohny to choose objects from the everyday environment of the children in order to arouse interest in the book on the one hand, but also one on the other to encourage a closer look at the outside world.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Book details .
- ↑ PA 64 A 3.4 Apprenticeship contract between Wilh. Müller-Mathys and Niklaus Bohny, 1822 (dossier) .
- ↑ Book distribution Sokrates: Bohny, Niklaus: Bilder-Lautirbuch .
- ↑ There is no reference to the year of edition or printing in the book.
- ↑ Nikolaus Bohny, foreword, in: Bohny's Neues Bilderbuch , 16th edition, Esslingen undated, undated