Ferdinand Stiehl

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Anton Wilhelm Ferdinand Stiehl

Anton Wilhelm Ferdinand Stiehl (born April 12, 1812 in Arnoldshain , † September 16, 1878 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a civil servant in the Prussian Ministry of Culture .

Life

Stiehl attended high school in Wetzlar and studied from 1829, first in Bonn and Halle (Saale) theology . In 1832 he joined the Corps Rhenania Bonn . In 1835 he became a teacher and in 1839 director of the seminar in Neuwied . Under Minister Friedrich Eichhorn he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Culture in 1844, where he rose to the position of the Secret Upper Government Council and First Class Council , responsible for elementary schools and seminars. He spoke often as a speaker during the revolution of 1848 and was elected to the Prussian parliament, where he was considered the "father of the right". In 1851 he left again. The controversial Prussian regulations for elementary school, preparatory and seminar systems of October 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1854 go back to Stiehl , better known as the three Stiehl regulations , which were issued by the Prussian minister of education, Karl Otto von Raumer . Its content was shaped by the goal of educating young people in a Christian, patriotic spirit as well as domestic virtue. The didactic principles emphasized greater clarity and sharpening of judgment, certainty of knowledge, deepening of education, the restriction of learning and knowledge to the essentials, concentration of teaching, drawing on for self-work in the lessons, practice in understanding, thinking and speaking.

These edicts earned him long-term criticism , especially from the liberal educator Adolph Diesterweg . The main criticisms were

  • the strong emphasis on religious upbringing with the aim of developing a Christian-patriotic spirit in the sense of an alliance of "throne and altar",
  • the reduction of the educational content of the elementary school to the allegedly "essential" and
  • the distrust of elementary school teachers as politically unreliable elements, which was expressed, for example, in the regulation of school reading (no classical literature, but Goethe's “ Hermann and Dorothea ”).

Also Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld continued this criticism. After Stiehl had outlived seven ministers of education, he submitted his retirement after Bismarck's appointment of the liberal minister Adalbert Falk in the autumn of 1872 , as he was not prepared to revise his regulations in the form requested by the minister.

He spent the last years of his life with his second wife Auguste von Kanitz, the widow of the Prussian minister Ludwig von Massow , in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Fonts

  • The patriotic history lessons in our elementary schools , Koblenz 1842

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 185. † Stiehl, Ferdinand . In: Matriculation of the Bonner Rhenania 1820 1970 , 1970, p. 44, Volume 4 of the blue books of the Bonner Rhenania .
personal data
SURNAME Stiehl, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiehl, Anton Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Official in the Prussian Ministry of Culture
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnoldshain
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1878
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau