Friedrich Dittes

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Friedrich Dittes
Dittes monument in his birthplace

Friedrich Dittes (born September 23, 1829 in Irfersgrün , † May 15, 1896 in Preßbaum near Vienna ) was a German educator who, as a reformer of the Austrian school system, also acted against the influence of the clergy .

Life

Friedrich Dittes attended the teachers' seminar in Plauen from 1844 to 1848 , became a teacher at the Bürgererschule in Reichenbach in 1849 and studied philology, natural sciences and education in Leipzig from 1850 to 1852 and 1858/60. After working as a teacher at various schools from 1848–51 and 1852–58 (e.g. 1853–1857 in Plauen), he became sub-rector at the secondary school and grammar school in Chemnitz in 1860, and received his doctorate in the same year. phil. and first successfully advocated a reorganization of the Saxon seminar and school system at the General German Teachers' Day held there in 1864 .

In 1865 Dittes was appointed to Gotha as a school councilor, state school inspector and seminar director, and in 1868 as director of the municipal teacher education department in Vienna. From 1870 to 1873 a member of the state school council for Lower Austria, since 1873 a member of the Austrian Reichsrat , Dittes repeatedly campaigned with vigor and success for free-thinking organization of the church and school system. The ensuing hostility from his clerical opponents prompted Dittes to resign in 1881.

In his pedagogy, Dittes referred to the philosophy of Friedrich Eduard Beneke and joined Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Adolph Diesterweg in his reformatory efforts .

Friedrich Dittes died in 1896 and was buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery (Group 14, No. 4). On October 21, 1900 a memorial was erected on his grave.

Honors

The Ditteshof , built in Döbling in the 1920s, was named after him. The Dittesgasse in Währing also bears his name. The "Dittesstrasse" and the Dittes-Schule in Zwickau, the Friedrich-Dittes-Strasse in Leipzig , the Dittesstrasse in Plauen , the Dittesstrasse in Gotha -West, the Dittesschule in Wilkau-Haßlau , the Dittes-Grundschule and Dittesstrasse in Reichenbach in Vogtland and the vocational school center “Dr. Friedrich Dittes ”in Glauchau are also named after him. The Dittes elementary school and high school in Plauen, the Vogtland town where he first attended the teachers' seminar on Blücherstraße (today's Freiheitsstraße), is named after the teacher.

Fonts

  • The aesthetic according to its fundamental nature and its educational significance (Leipzig 1854)
  • School of Pedagogy (Leipzig 1868–1876, published several times)
  • Textbook of practical logic (Leipzig 1871–1895, published several times)
  • History of education and teaching (Leipzig 1876)
  • Textbook of Psychology and Logic . Complete edition. (Vienna 1874)
  • Outline of Education and Teaching (Leipzig 1868)

editor

  • Pedagogy. Monthly for Education and Teaching , Leipzig: Klinkhardt 1878–1896 ( digital copies )

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Dittes, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, reformer of the Austrian school system
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Irfersgrün
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1896
Place of death Preßbaum