Ferdinand Sander (pedagogue)

Ferdinand Sander, 1903

Karl Heinrich Philipp Ferdinand Sander (born September 12, 1840 in Geismar , † September 29, 1921 in Bremen ) was a German educator, Protestant pastor and author.

biography

Sander was born as the son of pastor Philipp Sander (1806–1874) and his wife (since 1833) Julie Elisabeth S., b. Kreibohm (1806–1875) was born in Geismar near Göttingen. He attended high school in Göttingen and studied theology at the university there from 1858 to 1861 with Friedrich Lücke , who was friends with his father.

From 1862 to 1865 he was a high school teacher and assistant preacher in Lüneburg . He then became rector of the upscale city school in Walsrode . In 1867 he went to Gronau an der Leine as pastor diaconus. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he volunteered and received as a field division pastor at the XI. Army Corps awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class. In 1872 he finally devoted himself to education and became director of the seminar in Schlüchtern in Hesse . In 1874 he took over the post of high school councilor and seminar director in Oldenburg, before returning to the Prussian civil service in 1877. Until 1886 he worked as a government and school councilor in Breslau, among other things as a department head of the secondary school and technical schools. In 1886, at the request of the minister, he took over the management of the united royal schools in remote Bunzlau (grammar school, orphanage, school teachers' seminar, middle school). In 1894 he followed the call to the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen, where he was a school councilor until 1912, in charge of the entire higher and lower school system.

He not only traveled around Germany, but also made study trips to Belgium, Denmark, Sweden (1880), England (1884) and the Netherlands (1885).

He wrote several articles in theological and educational magazines, school programs and compilations on theological and cultural-historical topics: Dante Alighieri , Huguenots, biographical studies (especially on people who knew his family). He became known as a long-time editor of the educational articles in Meyer's (large) Konversationslexikon (4th ed. 1885–1890 to 6th ed. 1902–1908) and as an author in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . In 1883 and 1889 he published his own pedagogical encyclopedia far away in Silesia. He also worked on the supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung and edited Lücke's correspondence with the Brothers Grimm (Hanover 1891).

In terms of educational policy, he was involved in the Comenius Society founded in 1893 and was a member of its board of directors.

Works (selection)

• Dante Alighieri , Hanover 1872; 2nd edition 1887
• Lexicon of Pedagogy , 2nd edition, Breslau 1888
• The Huguenots and the Edict of Nantes , Breslau 1885
• Words of warning from serious times, sheets of memory of the war year 1870/71 , Hanover 1887
• Friedrich Lücke , Life and Time , Breslau 1891
• Deo Patriae Litteris , collected lectures and essays, Breslau 1894
• History of the elementary school , in Schmid's history of education , 5th volume, 3rd part, Stuttgart 1902

literature

• Hinrichsen, Adolf: The literary Germany . 2., presumably u. verb. Edition Berlin: Verl. D. Literary. Germany, 1891.
• Communications from the Comenius Society 1 (1893) 9 u. 10, p. 148 u. 154-155.
• Article 'Sander' in: Meyers big conversation lexicon: a reference work of general knowledge . 6., completely rework. u. Probably ed. Vol. 17, Rio to Schönebeck . Leipzig: Bibliogr. Inst., 1907, p. 540 Zeno.org
• Obituary by Ludwig Häpke in the Weser-Zeitung of October 4, 1921 Commons

Web links

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