Daniel Friedrich Langhans

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Daniel Friedrich Langhans, 1864

Daniel Friedrich Langhans (born January 13, 1796 in Schüpfen ; † March 31, 1875 in Münchenbuchsee , Canton Bern ) was a Reformed Swiss pastor and educator.

Life

Langhans was born in Schüpfen in 1796 as the son of pastor Sigmund Ludwig Langhans. His father, who had meanwhile taken over the pastor's position at the Nydegg Church in Bern , died in 1809. After studying theology in Bern and Göttingen , he taught Latin from 1817 at the municipal elementary school in Bern. In 1822 he became a pastor in Wimmis . There he was entrusted with the management of "normal courses" for teachers in addition to the pastor's office. For health reasons, he had to give up these positions after a few years. After his recovery he took over the mountain parish in Guttannen in the Bernese Oberland , where he organized maize and rice from Valais and Italy for the village during a severe famine.

The new democratic Bern constitution of 1831 called for better public education. In the spring of 1832 the establishment of the first state teachers' college was decided and Langhans was appointed by the government as its director. Since structural changes were necessary in the designated Schloss Münchenbuchsee , the first three-month “normal course” with 100 school teachers was to take place in buildings of the educational institute in Hofwil , which Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg and some free teachers made available to the education department.

Hofwil in the 19th century

No sooner had the normal course started than there were arguments between Langhans and Fellenberg. Fellenberg wanted to limit teacher training to practical and methodical training in the sense of his agricultural school, while Langhans pursued the goal of equipping future teachers with superior knowledge and instructing them to think and judge independently so that they could achieve rapid success in the classroom.

Teachers' seminar at Schloss Münchenbuchsee, 1850

On September 4, 1833, the seminar was opened in Münchenbuchsee Castle. As director, Langhans was responsible for the administrative and economic management, preparing the subject matter for all subjects, presenting them to the teachers and practicing with them. When the pastoral position in Münchenbuchsee became vacant in autumn 1834, he took the opportunity to switch to the quieter work of the pastor's office. In the 1850s he stood up for the seminary director Heinrich Grunholzer, who had fallen out of favor with the now conservative Bern government, and later also for his successor Heinrich Morf .

As a theologian he was initially close to the mediating direction of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher and later turned to liberal theology. In 1866 he participated in the founding of the liberal church reform association.

He married Elisabeth Kernen in 1828 and Maria Justine Morell in 1845. From his first marriage he had three children: Ernst Friedrich , Maria Elisabeth (* December 10, 1830 in Guttannen; † January 20, 1869 in Münchenbuchsee), Eduard , Paul Karl Gustav (* December 23, 1833 in Münchenbuchsee; † March 15, 1837 ibid).

literature

Counter report from 1833
  • Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg: The three-month educational course , Bern 1833
  • Daniel Friedrich Langhans: Counter report on the three-month educational course that was recently given to a hundred school teachers in Hofwil. Chr. Alb. Jenni, bookseller, Bern 1833.
  • Historical Association of the Canton of Bern (Ed.): Daniel Friedrich Langhans . In: Collection of Bernese biographies. First volume 1, pages 62-66. Published by A. Francke Bern 1884
  • Arnold Jaggi: The German teacher training college of the canton of Bern (1833-1933) . Festschrift for its centenary. Staatlicher Lehrmittelverlag, Bern 1933, pages 25–50.
  • Roland Petitmermet: The predicants since the Reformation , 1982, 20 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland: Sigmund Ludwig Langhans 1757–1809
  2. ^ Daniel Friedrich Langhans: Counter report on the three-month educational course that was recently given to one hundred school teachers in Hofwil. Chr. Alb. Jenni, bookseller, Bern 1833
  3. ^ Daniel Friedrich Langhans. In: Collection of Bernese biographies
personal data
SURNAME Langhans, Daniel Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pastor and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Scoop
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1875
Place of death Münchenbuchsee