Franz Joseph Koch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franz Josef Koch

Franz Joseph Koch (born March 22, 1875 in Schmallenberg-Bracht ; † October 23, 1947 in Meschede-Berge ) was a German teacher and author .

Life

Koch was born in Bracht on March 22, 1875. After attending primary school, he attended a teachers' seminar in Büren . From 1895 he taught at several schools before he became principal at a school in Essen in 1910 . During his active time he was also a co-founder of the Essen Adult Education Center. He also studied and worked at the universities in Cologne and Bonn and at the medical academy in Düsseldorf. In 1918 he married Maria Doll. The writer Maria Koch-Doll died in 1929. Four years later he married the art teacher Emilie Klingenburg. Koch published numerous books, including children's books, together with his wife Emilie Koch-Klingenburg. His songs and poems were set to music by Johannes Hatzfeld and Heinz Schüngeler .

After a stroke, Koch engaged in memory exercises. From this he developed Koch's finger reading method, which he developed from his lessons with deaf and dumb children and incorporated it into his rhythmic-musical reading method. Until his retirement in 1943, Koch worked in Essen. Then he returned to the Sauerland . Franz Joseph Koch was a brother-in-law of the poet Christine Koch . He died on October 23, 1947 in the mountains of the Sauerland, where he was also buried.

Awards

  • 1914: Prize in the poetry competition "Kölner Blumenspiele"
  • A special school in Arnsberg was named after him

Fonts (selection)

Koch's reading primers have been printed over a million times.

  • The mushroom hunter. Fredebeul & Koenen, 1924
  • Bird language and bird life. Fredebeul & Koenen, 1926
  • Medicinal plants. Fredebeul & Koenen, 1926
  • The two wheel rackets. Fredebeul & Koenen, 1928
  • Fredeburg children's songs. Schwann, 1928
  • Twelve bells ring. Publishing house of the cath. School organization, Germany 1928
  • Eia. Crüwell, 1931
  • Finger reading - reading as a sign game. 10th edition, Schwann, 1939

literature

  • Alfred Bruns: Schmallenberg heads . Published by the Schmallenberg-Holthausen Slate Mining Museum. Slate mining museum Schmallenberg-Holthausen 1985, p. 58 ( ZDB -ID 2293376-1 ).
  • Christoph Seeboth: Finger reading according to Franz-Joseph Koch. Use of an alternative reading learning method as part of the individual support of reading and spelling poor students. Tectum Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8288-0370-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Suerlänner - home calendar for the Kurköln Sauerland: Franz Josef Koch, p. 66 (PDF; 8.8 MB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1952@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sauerlaender-heimatbund.de  
  2. ↑ a b Franz-Joseph-Koch-Schule: biography , accessed on August 18, 2013.
  3. ^ Franz Joseph Koch in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , accessed on August 18, 2013
  4. ↑ Lesen-lernen.de: Finger Read (PDF) , accessed on August 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Franz Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmallenberg-Bracht
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1947
Place of death Meschede Mountains