German Association of Classical Philologists

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German Classical Philology Association V.
(DAV)
German Classical Philology Association Logo.svg
purpose Promotion of old-language teaching in schools and universities, advanced and advanced training for specialist colleagues, field trips, connection between teachers and universities, magazine: Forum Classicum .
Chair: Hartmut Loos
Establishment date: 1925
Number of members: 6000
Seat : Berlin
Website: German Association of Classical Philologists

German Classical Philology Association V. ( DAV ) is the name of the professional association for Latin and Greek at German schools and universities.

organization

Founded in 1925, it now has around 6,000 members in 15 regional associations who are or were active both at universities and in schools. The recognized non-profit association

Awarding of the Humanism Prize at the Federal Congress in Göttingen (March 2008)

Internationally, the DAV is part of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques (FIEC) and the European association of classical scholars' associations EUROCLASSICA .

The incumbent chairman is Hartmut Loos, the director of the grammar school at the Kaiserdom in Speyer. Honorary chairmen are Hermann Steinthal (†) and Friedrich Maier .

Federal congresses with the award of the Humanism Prize

Every two years a scientifically and didactically oriented federal congress takes place with often over 1000 participants, at which the Humanism Prize is awarded. The first prize winner in 1998 was Richard von Weizsäcker . He was followed by Roman Herzog in 2000 , Alfred Grosser in 2002 , and Władysław Bartoszewski in 2004 ; Jutta Limbach received it in 2006, Leoluca Orlando from Palermo in 2008 , Monika Maron in 2010 , Sebastian Krumbiegel in 2012 , the author Michael Köhlmeier in 2014 , the historian Andrea Riccardi in 2016 and Rita Süssmuth in 2018 .

Overview of the federal congresses since 2008
date place theme
March 25-29, 2008 Goettingen Antiquities and cultures of the world - classical education opens up horizons
April 6-10, 2010 Freiburg / Br. Education through language - Latin and Greek in the context of school languages
April 10-14, 2012 Erfurt Kissed by the muse. The classical languages ​​and the arts
April 22-26, 2014 innsbruck Ancient languages ​​build bridges
March 29th to April 2nd, 2016 Berlin Ancient cosmos: Latin and Greek open worlds
April 3 to 7, 2018 Saarbrücken Polis Europa: combining Latin and Greek

The next congress was for the 14.-18. Announced April 2020 in Würzburg, but had to be canceled due to the corona pandemic.

history

Founded in 1925

Founded in 1925 from the older grammar school association, the association supported the technical and educational interests of the humanistic grammar schools. They saw themselves threatened by the school reforms, which made it possible to enter higher education more and more without the need for old language requirements ( Richertsche Gymnasialreform ). In the beginning, Werner Jaeger's idea of ​​the Third Humanism was particularly central. Under Otto Regenbogen there was again a close personal union with the grammar school club from 1929 to 1935 . From 1933, the teachers 'associations were incorporated into the National Socialist Teachers' Association , and on March 20, 1935, the DAV was joined to the NSLB by an agreement. During the Nazi era, the state pushed back the humanistic grammar schools.

New establishment in 1950

After 1945, the classical philologists met again for their first conferences and, after some regional efforts, founded the association again in 1950. The first chairman was the Westphalian Bernhard Kock (1885–1973). The association's policy was aimed at a return to the Christian-humanist tradition. The university philologists remained in an association with the teachers in order to show the close ties between the two areas of education.

Right from the start, the association saw itself in a struggle to defend itself against the declining importance of the ancient languages ​​in schools, in particular the growing abolition of Latin lessons from the 5th grade onwards and the requirements for Latinums at universities. The attack on Saul B. Robinsohn's educational tradition in 1967, along with high school reform , put him on the defensive. New didactic ideas of the younger association members led to a new self-confidence in the 1970s and 1980s, which since 2000 have led to a real rush in Germany for the subject of Latin. The association was able to spread to all of the new federal states after 1990.

Chairperson

Programs

  • 1930: Old-language curriculum for the German humanistic grammar school (Weidmann, Berlin 1930)
  • 1951: (Declaration of May 19, 1951) The educational goal of the ancient language grammar school - The teaching objective of ancient languages ​​( grammar school . 58, p. 383 f.)
  • 1970: (Declaration of October 2, 1970) Aims of Latin and Greek teaching ( communications from the German Association of Classical Philology , Lower Saxony State Association together with the State Associations of Bremen and Hamburg. [MDAV] 1/1971, ZDB -ID 1129938-1 , P. 1 f.)
  • 1972: Recommendations of the Mommsen Society and the German Association of Classical Philologists (MDAV 4/1972, pp. 1–8)
  • 1976: Report on the work of the committee "Learning target taxonomy " (MDAV 1/1976, p. 1–15)

literature

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Altphilologenverband  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ That was the DAV Federal Congress 2018. In: altphilologenverband.de, accessed on February 3, 2019. -
    Rita Süssmuth in Saarbrücken honored with the Humanism Prize 2018. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.de. Saarbrücker Zeitung , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ For the congresses see congresses. In: altphilologenverband.de, accessed on February 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Information on this on the website of the German Association of Classical Philologists.
  4. ^ Eckard Lefèvre: Between self-confidence and self-defense. 30 years of justifying ancient language teaching. In: Gymnasium. 90 (1983), pp. [389] -400, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-51212 ( PDF; 1.3 MB ; speech from 1982).