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David Traugott Kopf (Sorbian Dabit Boguwěr Głowan , Latinized Wowanus ; born April 13, 1788 in Schwarzkollm , Upper Lusatia , Kingdom of Saxony ; † November 2, 1865 in Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a Sorbian educator .

Life

David Traugott Kopf began his work as a village school teacher in the Sorbian communities of Kackrow , Papitz and Fehrow , where he wrote and edited a "Wendish hymn book".

In 1815 he became a teacher at the Cottbus Wendish parochial school. It was characterized by numerous innovations and impulses for education in the Sorbian language. Such training was viewed by the Prussian authorities at that time as unnecessary or even harmful. Shaped by the ideas of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , he called for uniform reading material. He put through a school house for the 400 schoolchildren, for which the city of Cottbus provided land, but the municipalities of Ostrow , Brunschwig and Sandow could not agree on the financing.

In 1816 Kopf founded the "Teachers Conference Society" as the first teachers' association in Cottbus, and after the end of the parochial school in 1819, he became a teacher in the Neuzelle preparatory institute .

In 1825 he became the educational inspector of the institution for morally neglected children at Hallescher Tor in Berlin and remained so until his retirement.

Honors

David Traugott Kopf house in Schwarzkollm

In order to honor his services, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle . In his birthplace Schwarzkollm is the David-Traugott-Kopf-Haus , which houses apartments and a doctor's practice as well as the local kindergarten.

Fonts (selection)

  • (revised): Johann Friedrich Julius Borsum: Journey to Constantinople, Palestine and Egypt, or: Living proof of how graciously God helps those who put his hope in him . Revised by David Traugott Kopf. Berlin 1825
  • The life of the Sorbian teachers Christian and David Wowanus or: The victory of faith. 1830, with autobiographical features
  • Old and new from an old educator's portfolio: A contribution to the history of education in northern Germany . Albert Wohlgemuth's, Berlin 1843

literature

  • David Traugott head. In: Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg : The pedagogical Germany of the present, or: Collection of autobiographies of now living, German educators and teachers, for educators. Edited by Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. Volume II, Berlin n.d. [1834], pp. 51-152

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Kunze: The Prussian Sorbs Policy 1815–1847 , VEB Domowina-Verlag , Bautzen 1978
  2. ↑ Papitz.net: history. Retrieved June 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Schwarzkollmer Kopf-Haus remains in municipal ownership. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 13, 2010, accessed April 1, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Head, David Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wowanus, David Traugott; Głowan, Dabit Boguwěr (Sorbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzkollm
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1865
Place of death Berlin