Enrique Conrado Rébsamen

Enrique Conrado Rébsamen (born February 8, 1857 in Kreuzlingen , Switzerland as Heinrich Konrad Rebsamen, entitled to live in Turbenthal ; † April 8, 1904 in Xalapa , Mexico ) was a Swiss-Mexican educator whose reforms and ideas had a decisive influence on the educational system in Mexico.

Life

parents

Enrique Conrado Rébsamen was born as the eldest child of the married couple Johann Ulrich ( 1825 - 1897 ) and Katharina Rebsamen (née Egloff) in Kreuzlingen in 1857 .

As a farmer's son, his father attended the teachers 'seminar in Küsnacht and, after studying theology and a stay abroad, worked from 1854 to 1897 as director of the teachers' seminar in Kreuzlingen. At the same time, Johann Ulrich served as secondary school inspector and education councilor, between 1866 and 1874 editor of the Swiss Teachers 'Journal and until 1894 also as a member of the central committee of the Swiss Teachers' Association. Johann Ulrich realized Ignaz Thomas Scherr's ideas and his concept of scientific teacher training throughout his life .

Katharina Rebsamen-Egloff was also highly educated and the daughter of a government councilor and a colonel in the Swiss army.

Career

Enrique C. Rébsamen attended the Kreuzlingen teacher training college between 1874 and 1876 . He then studied in Lausanne and Zurich before he was the head of the grammar school in Lichtenfels until 1882 .

During this time he made friends with various intellectuals. One of them, the explorer and writer Carl von Gagern , gave Rébsamen his essay "Quetzalcoatl" to read. It is true that Rébsamen was shocked to read at first - according to tradition - but in 1883 he decided to get to know Mexico better.

Working in Mexico

Escuela Rébsamen in Xalapa

In Mexico, Rébsamen initially took on the upbringing of the children of a merchant. In Mexico City , Rébsamen made friends with contemporary personalities such as the author and politician Ignacio Manuel Altamirano .

This also made the then Mexican President Porfirio Díaz aware of Rébsamen. He recommended him to the then governor of Veracruz, Juan de la Luz Enríquez , who was driving educational projects in the state at the same time.

Rebsamen founded in the wake 1886 in Xalapa , the capital of the state of Veracruz , the normal Escuela , the local teacher training college. He followed the model of the school of the German Enrique Laubscher in Orizaba . Rébsamen's ideas and methods were published by Abraham Castellanos under the title "Pedagogía Rébsamen" (Rébsamen Pedagogy). In 1889 Rébsamen founded the magazine "México Intelectual" .

From 1891, at the request of President Porfirio Díaz, the reorganization of the public schools was extended to other places. Rébsamen worked personally in Oaxaca , Jalisco and Guanajuato . Teachers trained by him passed on the new ideas in seven other educational establishments. In 1900 45 educational institutions were already working according to his methods. At the same time, Rébsamen published numerous writings, such as "Method of writing and reading" in 1899, of which four million copies were sold by 1929.

His basic ideas were conceptually based on the German pedagogy of the time (Herbart, Ziller, Diesterweg, Froebel and Kehr), the French (Rousseau and Jacotot), the English (Spencer, Bain) as well as the Swiss ( Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ).

Rébsamen died in Xalapa in April 1904 .

consequences

Mexican teacher training is still based in many parts on the work of Rébsamen. He founded the regulated teacher training in Mexico and promoted the local elementary school system. Rébsamen also drafted legal texts that laid down primary education throughout the state in its new form.

recognition

To this day, Rébsamen is mentioned in numerous public places.

The teachers' seminar he founded in Veracruz bears his name with Escuela Normal Veracruzana "Enrique C.Rebsamen"
Various streets in Mexico bear Rébsamens names, including one of the main streets in Xalapa and another in Mexico's Colonia Valle district
Numerous schools in Mexico are named after Rébsamen
In Switzerland, Rébsamen is commemorated with a commemorative plaque in the southern stairwell of the old building of the Kreuzlingen Pedagogical Middle School

Individual evidence

^ Instituto Nacional de Migración / Centro de estudios migratorios: 200 Mexicanos que nos Heredó el Mundo . Mexico City 2010, ISBN 978-6-07789102-4 , pp. 259 .
↑ Hans-Ulrich Grunder: Johann Ulrich Rebsamen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 9, 2012 , accessed March 13, 2019 .
^ Vine seeds from Turbenthal ZH. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Erich Trösch: Enrique C. Rebsamen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2011 , accessed March 13, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Enrique C. Vine seeds. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
↑ Veracruz - Xalapa. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
↑ Pedagogía Rebsamen [Texto impreso]:] asuntos de metodología general relacionados con la escuela primaria. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rébsamen, Enrique Conrado
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rebsamen, Heinrich Konrad (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss-Mexican educator
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kreuzlingen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1904
Place of death	Xalapa , Mexico

[1] Instituto Nacional de Migración / Centro de estudios migratorios: 200 Mexicanos que nos Heredó el Mundo . Mexico City 2010, ISBN 978-6-07789102-4 , pp. 259 .

[2] Hans-Ulrich Grunder: Johann Ulrich Rebsamen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 9, 2012 , accessed March 13, 2019 .

[3] Vine seeds from Turbenthal ZH. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .

[:0-4] Erich Trösch: Enrique C. Rebsamen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2011 , accessed March 13, 2019 .

[:1-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Enrique C. Vine seeds. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .

[6] Veracruz - Xalapa. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .

[7] Pedagogía Rebsamen [Texto impreso]:] asuntos de metodología general relacionados con la escuela primaria. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .