Emanuel Georg Sarris

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Emanuel Georg Sarris (* 1899 on Samos , † 1971 in Athens ) was a Greek educator , animal psychologist , dog trainer and lecturer for modern Greek .

Life

Sarris lived in Greece and Germany .

1899 to the 1920s

Sarris was born on Samos in 1899, the second child of a family of eight. His father was a gendarmerie officer .

After graduating from high school , Sarris studied at the teacher training college for priests on Samos . Two years of military service followed the studies . From 1920 to 1924 Sarris taught in Northern Greece. From 1924 to 1926 he completed a teacher training course at the University of Athens .

1920s to 1940

The training in Greece was followed by university studies in Germany; in Jena and Hamburg . In 1931 Sarris received his doctorate in education and psychology .

As a result, he took up a position as a lecturer at the Hamburg Institute for Environmental Research . Together with Jakob von Uexküll , whose student he was, Sarris developed a method for training guide dogs in Hamburg in the early 1930s . The training of the dogs, which insisted that the dogs should learn through experience and not through punishment, was institutionally tied to the Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Hamburg , which was headed by Uexküll, before the end of the Second World War . The guide dog training took place with a so-called training cart, also known as an "artificial human" . The car "[...] corresponded in its dimensions to the outline of a human and should bring the dog closer to the human spatial structure without the intervention of the trainer."

In 1939 Sarris married Irmgard Boehnke, who would later become an educationalist. The marriage produced a son, Viktor Sarris .

1940 to 1948

In 1940 Emanuel Sarris returned to Greece. In 1941 he became a lecturer in education at the teachers' seminary for priests in Ioannina .

1948 through the 1950s

In 1948 she returned to Germany. Sarris stayed with his family for two years. However, since he was unable to implement his professional ideas in Germany, he moved back to Greece. Sarris sought a reform of teacher training at.

1950s to 1971

In Greece, he was in the years 1952 to 1956 at teacher training college of Florina , 1956-1963 Alexandroupolis and from 1963 to 1966 on Maraslion managerial experience in Athens. In 1971 Sarris died in Athens.

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  1. ↑ Georgios Pirgiotakis: Classical Reform Education in Greece using the example of the five Greek educators Alexander Delmousos, Michael Papamavros, Miltos Kountouras, Nikolaos Kastanos and Emmanouel Sarris , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ Georgios Pirgiotakis names 1971 as the year Emanuel Sarris died. Elsewhere there are also statements that speak of 1977 as the year of death. The present presentation follows Pirgiotakis.
  3. ↑ Georgios Pirgiotakis: Classical Reform Education in Greece using the example of the five Greek educators Alexander Delmousos, Michael Papamavros, Miltos Kountouras, Nikolaos Kastanos and Emmanouel Sarris , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ Uta Krukowska: War invalids. General living conditions and medical care of German disabled people after the end of the Second World War in the British zone of occupation in Germany - illustrated using the example of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg , Books on Demand, Norderstedt near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4725-7 , pages 62–63.
  5. ↑ Working Group of Guide Dog Owners Lower Saxony: History , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ Hamburg professor catalog: Irmgard Sarris , accessed on March 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sarris, Emanuel Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek educator, animal psychologist, dog trainer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Samos
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Athens