Carl August Zeller

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Carl August Zeller

Carl August Zeller (born August 15, 1774 in Hohenentringen Castle near Tübingen , † March 23, 1846 in Stuttgart) was a Swabian educator and supporter of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi .

Life

He was the eldest son of court counselor Christian David Zeller and his wife, daughter of the pastor Schneck from Waldenbuch. He became famous for introducing the Pestalozzian method into elementary schools. He first met Pestalozzi in Burgdorf in 1803 .

In 1803, Carl August Zeller founded the craft Sunday school in Tübingen, which was generally enthusiastically received by the Tübingen citizens and master craftsmen. On March 13, 1804, Johann Immanuel Bossert , Johann Wilhelm Bopp and Johann Jacob Rehfuß took part in the first public examination.

Zeller's birthplace in Hohenentringen Castle

He founded "Schulmeisterschulen" (normal schools) in Zurich in 1806 , in Hofwil in 1808 and in Heilbronn in 1809 and worked as a high school teacher in St. Gallen , as a teacher trainer in Zurich and Hofwil and as a school inspector in Heilbronn. On July 7, 1808, the King of Württemberg Friedrich I traveled to Switzerland to visit Gut Hofwil and the "schoolmaster's school" established there.

In 1836 he opened a child rescue facility in the former Lichtenstern Monastery near Löwenstein (today the Evangelical Foundation Lichtenstern ) based on the model of the institution in Beuggen Castle, which was run by his brother Christian Heinrich Zeller .

Fonts

  • The schoolmaster's school, or instructions for school teachers to skillfully manage their office, in questions and answers, parables, stories and conversations . Koenigsberg 1807.
  • Basic lines of gymnastics . Königsberg 1817. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive )

literature

  • Ferdinand Sander :  Zeller, Karl August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 28-32.
  • Annedore Bauer: The Pedagogy of Carl August Zeller (1774-1846). Their importance for schools and education with special consideration for Württemberg. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-631-41798-5 . (also dissertation, University of Munich 1988)
  • Inna Beier: Carl August Zeller (1774–1846). The theory of elementary school and its transformation into an educational practice . Waxmann, Münster / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-8309-3284-0 .
  • Thomas Wiedenhorn, Ursula Pfeiffer-Blattner (Ed.): 200 years of state teacher training in Württemberg: On the institutionalization of state teacher training. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-03621-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Hauer: Local school development and urban living environment: the school system in Tübingen from its beginnings in the late Middle Ages to 1806. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003.
  2. ↑ Thomas Wiedenhorn, Ursula Pfeiffer-Blattner (Ed.): 200 years of state teacher training in Württemberg: On the institutionalization of state teacher training. Springer, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeller, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and supporter of Pestalozzi
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenentringen Castle near Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1846
Place of death Stuttgart