Friedrich Christian Georg Kapp

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Friedrich Christian Georg Kapp (born March 24, 1792 in Ludwigsstadt ; † February 8, 1866 in Hamm ) was a German educator .

Life

Friedrich Christian Georg Kapp - an older brother of the philosopher Ernst Kapp - began studying theology and philosophy in Erlangen from 1810 to 1813 after attending the Christian-Ernestinum grammar school in Bayreuth , which he initially completed with a doctorate in 1813 . After a semester in Heidelberg he returned to Erlangen, where he completed his habilitation. Inspired by his acquaintance with Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , he founded an educational institution in Würzburg , which, however, did not last for economic reasons. So he initially returned to the University of Erlangen, where he joined the Erlangen Freemason Lodge Lebanon to the three Ceders , but from 1819 worked as a private lecturer in Bonn . He was denied a professorship for pedagogy , so that in February 1821 he took up a position as senior teacher at the grammar school in Hamm , but was promoted to director there in 1824. As a supporter of Pestalozzi, he felt obliged to the goal of a broad general education. In addition to the maintenance of the ancient languages, the so-called real subjects were therefore upgraded. In 1848 he took an active part in the revolutionary events in Westphalia . In April, for example, he invited all teachers from the province of Westphalia to a meeting in Hamm, which passed a resolution on school reform in Prussia . On June 9th, Kapp traveled to Berlin to work as a guest on the teaching commission of the Prussian National Assembly , which was working on a school reform (separation of state and church; free schooling; group lessons ). In the autumn of 1848, on Kapp's initiative, a teachers 'meeting in Dortmund decided to found a general teachers' association for Westphalia. After the failure of the revolution of 1848/49, Kapp retired early in 1852.

family

His parents were Christian Kapp (1763-1814), a judicial officer in Ludwigstadt and his wife Sophie Friedlein . The couple had twelve children. Friedrich married Amalie Keck (1798–1836), she was the daughter of pastor Johann Nikolaus Keck from Drossenfeld and his wife Johanna Margarete Kapp . Friedrich Kapp and his wife had several children among them:

  • Friedrich (1824–1884) ⚭ 1850 Louise Engels (1825–1916)

Works

  • Science education as a whole. Or the sequence of stages in natural science lessons as the organic middle link between geography and history , Hamm 1834.

literature

  • Adolf Beil: Kapp and Tross, two important teachers at our grammar school , in: Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the state grammar school in Hamm. 1657-1957, Hamm 1957, pp. 257-265.
  • Festschrift to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal High School in Hamm iW, Hamm 1907.
  • Wolfgang Komo: Friedrich Kapp sen. in Hamm around 1848 , in: Jürgen Lange (Hrsg.): Hammer reading book. Stories from the history of the city, Essen 1991, pp. 156–162, ISBN 3-88474-358-9 .