Franz Xaver Stoll

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Franz Xaver Stoll 1856

Franz Xaver Maria Johann Nepomuk Anton Stoll (born October 8, 1834 in Mainz , † January 8, 1902 in Bensheim ) was a German educator and between 1857 and 1893 high school teacher at the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim .

Life

Franz Xaver Stoll was born as the son of the episcopal endowment calculator Johann Engelbert Stoll (1802-1854) and Franziska Christina Stoll, née Clemenz (1807-1845). He is the father of the Bensheim teacher, local history researcher and local politician Joseph Stoll . After completing his schooling at the grammar school in Mainz, he first studied classical philology , then mathematics and natural sciences in Bonn and Giessen .

His studies were marked by two severe blows of fate that delayed and endangered his training. No sooner had he moved to Bonn University at the age of 20 and started his studies than his father died and Stoll had to return to Mainz to take care of his father's business. In order to be able to continue his studies, he entrusted his inheritance to a family he knew for administration and returned to Bonn. In the course of his studies in Bonn he fell ill with typhoid fever . During his illness, he was robbed by his hosts of his property, mainly of the inheritance of his mother, and had after his recovery weakened back to Mainz to see there that the manager of his legacy had been declared bankrupt and he also paternal inheritance by garnishment altogether had lost. He returned penniless and finished his studies.

Doctorate certificate Franz Xaver Stolls 1857

In 1856 he began his service as an accessist at the grammar school in Gießen and received his doctorate in 1857. In the same year, on April 30, 1857, he was entrusted with the provisional administration of an apprenticeship position at the grammar school in Bensheim. Only on February 10, 1865 did he get a permanent position.

Stoll's studies in classical philology and the natural sciences enabled him to teach German, Latin, Greek, geography, mathematics and natural history (physics; biology) in all grades of grammar school. He wrote a great many of the scientific treatises to be found at the end of the school year and the exams in the so-called Rede Acts, both on philological and scientific content.

Award certificate Grand Ducal Order of Merit - Knight's Cross of the Order of Philipps 1st class

For the high school in Bensheim, Stoll brought the strengthening of the science lessons, whereby he did not pay attention to the procedure necessary for the acquisition of teaching materials, but acted according to the teaching necessities and needs. In general, prefabricated opinions and procedures seemed suspicious to him, as a confrontation with the clergy , triggered by his modern, scientifically-oriented interpretation of the history of the earth - “Statements contrary to religion by Dr. Stoll in front of the students 1863 ”- from his progressive orientation.

Until his death he made regular contributions to mathematical journals in Germany, France and England. B. to the mathematical annals of "Clebsch and Neumann", to the "Journal for Mathematics and Physics by Schlömilch and Cantor". By 1898 he had submitted no fewer than 95 tasks to JCV Hoffmann's "Journal for Mathematical and Scientific Teaching". Only two scholars made more contributions: Schlömilch at 167 and Dr. Emmerich (Mülheim an der Ruhr) with 122 tasks. In the meantime, the last issue of this technical publication contains 14 articles by Stoll. In 1898, together with Hoffmann, Emmerich and Müsebeck, he published the “Collection of Tasks in the Task Repertory of the First 25 Volumes” of the journal. He was in contact with many European and North American scholars, and his papers were published in English and French journals, e.g. B. the "L'intermediare des Mathematiciens", the "Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society" and in the journal published by the London Mathematical Society.

His pedagogical approach, to which he adhered, was discussed in professional circles. His school book “ Beginnings of the newer geometry for the upper classes of grammar schools and secondary schools ”, published in 1872, is based on action and student-oriented principles.

In March 1882 he was awarded the title of "Professor" and on July 19, 1893 the Knight's Cross of the Order of Philip, 1st class . On August 1, 1893, at his own insistence, he was retired in recognition of his loyal service.

Stoll married Katharina Stoll, nee Mohr, on August 4, 1874. He had several children who, with the exception of his son Joseph Stoll, died as children.

Franz Xaver Stoll suffered a stroke on Christmas 1901 from which he did not recover and from which he died on January 8, 1902.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kieffer (1902): Prof. Dr. Franz Xaver Stoll, necrology from Prof. Dr. Kiefer in Bensheim ad B. In: Journal for mathematical and scientific teaching, volume 33, page 143f.
  2. ^ Doctorate certificate January 30, 1857, estate of Franz Xaver Stoll
  3. ^ Henkelmann, K. (1914): Professor Dr. Franz Xaver Stoll. In: “Hessischen Chronik” - monthly booklet for family and local history in Hessen and Hessen-Nassau, vol. 3, booklet 1, pages 17-21.
  4. ^ Bentz, H (1956): Franz Xaver Stoll. A man of science and a great school man. In: Bergstrasse Advertisement Sheet of January 7, 1956, p. 11.
  5. ↑ AKG (Ed.) (1986): 300 years old Kurfürstliches Gymnasium Bensheim, Bensheim, page 51.
  6. ↑ Reiner Maaß and Manfred Berg (eds.) (2006): Bensheim - traces of history. EditionDiesbach, Weinheim, pp. 257f.
  7. ↑ Kieffer (1902): Prof. Dr. Franz Xaver Stoll, necrology from Prof. Dr. Kiefer in Bensheim ad B. In: Journal for mathematical and scientific teaching, volume 33, page 143f.
  8. ^ Stoll, FX (1873): Replik, In: Hoffmann. JCV (Ed.): Journal for mathematics and science teaching. Volume 3, p. 171.
  9. ^ Stoll, FX (1872): Foundations of the newer geometry for the upper classes of high schools and secondary schools, Bensheim.
  10. ^ Letter of March 18, 1882, estate of Franz Xaver Stoll
  11. ↑ Order of Merit certificate Philip the Magnanimous July 19th 1893, Franz Xaver estate Stoll

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SURNAME Stoll, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoll, Franz Xaver Maria Johann Nepomuk Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1902
Place of death Bensheim