Friedrich August Goering

Presumably portrait of Friedrich August Göring

Friedrich August Göring (born February 1, 1771 in Stendal , † September 28, 1840 in Potsdam ) was a German teacher . He worked at the monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg and was director of the Katharineum in Lübeck .

Live and act

After attending school in Stendal and at the cathedral school in Magdeburg , Göring studied theology and philology at the University of Wittenberg from 1790 . In 1797 he completed his studies with a master's degree and initially worked as a private tutor at Gröditz Castle near Bautzen .

In 1796, at the request of Provost Gotthilf Sebastian Rötger, he came to the pedagogy of the monastery of Our Dear Women . Here he soon became one of Rötger's closest collaborators in his school reforms based on the ideas of neo-humanism . Goering worked for these goals in numerous treatises. In 1800 he was introduced by Rötger (who remained his superior as provost) as rector of the pedagogy.

As early as 1805 he was to be appointed to Lübeck, but Rötger managed to keep him. Ten years later, however, Göring was frustrated by his lack of consideration in the reorganization of the Prussian education system. So in 1815 he accepted the call to Lübeck, for which his friend and co-reformer Johann Gottfried Gurlitt had recommended him, and became director of the Katharineum as the successor to Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche .

During his time at the Katharineum, Göring continued the reforms begun by his predecessors Friedrich Daniel Behn and Mosche. This led to an upgrading of the school and a strong increase in the number of pupils, which almost tripled in the first half of the 19th century from 120 (1803) to 344 (1844). Goering consolidated the school conditions, which were still suffering from the consequences of the French occupation . In 1828 he introduced the scholarship examination and thus created a final examination comparable to the Prussian Abitur , which had been introduced for a long time and which had not previously been given in Lübeck. A satisfactory division of the two branches (Realgymnasium and Humanistic Gymnasium), which he had in mind, only succeeded under his successor.

In 1830, for health reasons, Göring asked for release from his office, which was also granted to him when a similar successor was found in Johann Friedrich Jacob , who had already worked under Göring's leadership in Magdeburg.

Göring was appointed school councilor in Breslau . However, it remains unclear whether there were obligations associated with this. A stay there has not yet been booked.

Fonts (selection)

• D. Martinus Lutherus quae classica Graecorum Latinorumque scripta scholis commendavit tractanda quibusque rationibus ad ea ipsa eligenda commotus est? [Printer:] Römhild, Lubecae 1817 (school program from November 1, 1817)
• Rationes, cur locus, qui legitur apud Ciceronem, De officiis lib. II, c. V., § 7.8 spurius dictus sit, examinantur ... Lübeck 1818
• Den Manen Friedrich Herrmann's : Speech given on January 22nd, 1819 in the Gymnasium in Lübeck to Prof. Fr. Herrmann's Sarge. von Rohden, Lübeck 1819
• About school laws, with an appendix of regulations for the pupils of the high school and the citizens' school at St. Catharinen. Schmidt, Lübeck 1819
• News about the establishment and first establishment of the St. Katharinenschule in Lübeck: ... Mr. Johann Matthäus Tesdorpf ... on October 2nd. 1823 on the day of the celebration of his 50 years leadership of state offices. Lübeck 1823
• About the yardstick by which the number of teachers in public schools is to be determined. Lübeck 1824

literature

• Jochen Kreinberger: Friedrich August Göring (1771-1840). (With a preliminary remark and an afterword to the Lübeck presentation by Robert Schweitzer), typescript Lübeck 2000

extended version from: teachers, provosts and rectors. Personalities from the history of education at the monastery of Our Dear Women (zu) Magdeburg (= Magdeburg museum books , issue 14). Magdeburg Museums, Magdeburg 2000, ISBN 3-930030-52-7 , pp. 91-110

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche	Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1816–1831	Johann Friedrich Jacob