Clemens Menze

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Clemens Menze (born September 20, 1928 in Tietelsen in the Höxter district ; † October 12, 2003 in Cologne ) was a German pedagogue and professor for pedagogy at the University of Cologne .

Career

Clemens Menze, who as a student in World War II was still used as an anti-aircraft helper , graduated from high school in 1949 . He then studied German , classical philology and philosophy at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1953 with a thesis entitled "Contribution to the history of the southern German literary baroque". Menze was a member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Borussia-Königsberg and Alsatia to Cologne in the KV . He completed both state examinations for high school teaching and became a student assessor in 1956. The following year, however, he returned to the University of Cologne as Julius Drechsler's assistant, where he completed his habilitation in 1963 on the subject of "Wilhelm von Humboldt's teaching and image of man".

In 1967 Menze was appointed to the chair of pedagogy and appointed director of the pedagogical seminar, which he remained until 1993. From 1969 to 1971 he served as dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne and from 1975 to 1977 as its rector.

Menze's main areas of research included Wilhelm von Humboldt's pedagogy and human doctrine as well as the educational reform initiated by Humboldt in Prussia at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Individual evidence

  1. Clemens Menze: Wilhelm von Humboldt's teaching and image of man . A. Henn, Ratingen 1965.
  2. ^ Clemens Menze: The educational reform of Wilhelm von Humboldt . Schroedel, Hanover 1975.