Franz Leibing

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Franz Leibing (born September 19, 1836 in Berlin ; † August 7, 1875 there ) was a German philologist, writer and publicist who made a name for himself especially through his commitment to German popular education .

Leibing was the son of a craftsman, completed philological and historical studies in Berlin (among others with Leopold von Ranke and August Böckh ) and in 1864 took up a position as a teacher at the first-class secondary school in Elberfeld . After the campaign of 1866 he became disabled, suffered from spinal cord damage, had to give up the teaching profession and was retired in 1869. In 1871 he became general secretary of the Society for the Dissemination of Popular Education in Berlin, which he had set up in a joint initiative with the factory owner Fritz Kalle and with the participation of numerous well-known personalities. He published the magazine "Der Bildungsverein".

Fonts

  • Ninon de Lenclos. Dramatic painting of characters and morals in 5 acts. E. Bloch, Berlin 1860
  • Nature, art and people in Upper Italy and Switzerland. Psychological sketches. Fritsch, Leipzig 1866
  • Legends and fairy tales of the Bergisches Land. Lucas, Elberfeld 1868 (reprint Edition Kierdorf, Remscheid 1985, ISBN 3-922055-82-6 )
  • The staging of the two-day Lucerne Easter game from 1583 by Renwart Cysat: depicted in the Lucerne Citizens' Library from Cysat's handwritten papers . Fridrichs, Elberfeld 1869
  • Geographical repetition tables: For middle classes in high schools, secondary schools and high schools . Mittler and Son, Berlin 1869
  • Geographical elementary book based on the drawing method. Mittler and Son, Berlin 1869–1870
  • Germany's voluntary education system in its current state. In: Die Grenzboten, 30 (1871), pp. 25–31. Reprinted in: Horst Dräger, The Society for the Spread of Popular Education. 1974, pp. 369-375
  • German Spring 1871: political poetry partly in the forms of minnesong. Lipperheide, Berlin 1871
  • King Vandal's shield. Comedy in one act. Michaelson, Berlin, no year [around 1880]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . Leipzig 1905-1909, Volume 12, pp. 353-354.
personal data
SURNAME Leibing, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1875
Place of death Berlin