Ernst August Evers
Ernst August Evers (born April 30, 1779 in Isenhagen , † January 6, 1823 in Lüneburg ) was a German teacher .
life and work
Evers studied classical philology in Halle and Göttingen . He was a student of Friedrich August Wolf and attended lectures by Georg Christian Knapp and Johann August Nösselt .
In 1804 Evers went to Aarau , where he was given the task of reorganizing the Aargau canton school that had just been founded , which, according to the wishes of its founders, was to become the intellectual center of the new Greater Canton of Aargau . Evers gave the school a fixed organization and a curriculum . As a critic of Enlightenment pedagogy and an advocate of a bourgeois public, he turned against the idea that the individual should be sacrificed to usability and usefulness and the constraints of the state and profession. Rather, he placed the comprehensive education of the human being and especially the study of philological subjects in the foreground. In 1811 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Aarau. In 1817 Evers followed a call as inspector and professor at the Knight Academy St. Michaelis in Lüneburg .
Evers was the son-in-law of Jakob Nüsperli and brother-in-law of Heinrich Zschokke and Friedrich Nüsperli . The estate of Ernst August Evers is located in the State Archives of Aargau .
Fonts
- Fragment of the Aristotelian art of education, as an introduction to a scrutinizing comparison of ancient and modern pedagogy. Samuel Flick, Aarau 1806.
- On school education to bestiality: a pamphlet in favor of humanistic education. Friedrich Jakob Beck, Aarau 1807. Reprint: Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-925678-95-6 .
literature
- Thomas Müller-Wolfer: Ernst August Evers In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Vol. 65, 1953, pp. 136-142
- Theodor Müller-Wolfer: Ernst August Evers. In: Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957. Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 921 f.
- Theodor Müller-Wolfer: Evers, Ernst August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 691 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans-Ulrich Grunder: Evers, Ernst August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evers, Zschokke, Nüsperli. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Evers, Ernst August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Isenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1823 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |