Friedrich Poske (pedagogue)

Friedrich Poske (born April 5, 1852 in Berlin ; † September 28, 1925 there ) was a German educator and scientist.

Friedrich Poske (portrait of Ginsberg , missing since 1945 , ca.1883)

Live and act

Studying natural sciences at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin from 1870 to 1873 (with Hermann von Helmholtz , Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen ) and 1873/74 at the Grand Ducal University of Heidelberg was followed by a doctorate in 1874. From 1876 until his retirement in 1917 Poske worked at the Berlin Askanische Gymnasium, first as a senior teacher, later as a professor and secretary for mathematics and especially for natural sciences. His field of activity extended far beyond teaching. So he contributed to the reform of the humanistic grammar school in the sense of a stronger consideration of the mathematical and scientific subjects and to the establishment of the natural science association.

Together with Ernst Mach and Bernhard Schwalbe, he founded the "Journal for Physical and Chemical Education" in 1887, which he published until his death. In addition to his purely scientific activities, which were also reflected in a number of publications, Poske also devoted himself to humanities studies. An intensive exchange of ideas, which led to several publications, connected him with the Wahnfried house and the Bayreuth district , in particular with Heinrich von Stein . After his early death, Poske published the works he had left behind.

Poske was married to Elfriede Ginsberg (1848-1892) in his first marriage. After her death in 1898 he married the singer Marianne Chales de Beaulieu. The first marriage had a son, the second had three daughters and two sons, including the submarine commander Friedrich Poske . In 1906 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

• Heinrich von Stein and his Weltanschauung (together with Houston Stewart Chamberlain ), Munich 1903, (2nd edition 1905)
• The natural science lessons at the higher schools (together with R. von Hanstein) in: Writings of the German committee for mathematical and natural science lessons, 2nd part, issue 5, Leipzig and Berlin 1918
• The natural sciences in the new education, in: The new education , 1st year, 1919, pp. 401–407
• On school reform, a debate on mathematics and science lessons, in: Lehrsblätter für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, 1921, p. 18f
• The new course in the Prussian higher education system, in: Writings of the German Committee for Mathematical and Scientific Education, Volume II, Issue 9, Leipzig and Berlin 1924.

as editor

• From the estate of Heinrich von Stein, Dramatic Pictures and Stories, Leipzig 1888
• Heinrich von Stein, Goethe and Schiller, Contributions to the Aesthetics of German Classics, Leipzig 1893
• Lectures on aesthetics, based on existing records by Heinrich von Stein, Leipzig 1897
• Heinrich von Stein, Collected Seals (3 volumes), Leipzig 1900 ff.
• On the culture of the soul, collected essays by Heinrich von Stein, Leipzig 1906
• Lower level of natural science - physics along with astronomy and chemistry according to A. Höfler's theory of nature for the lower grades of Austrian secondary schools, for higher educational institutions of the German Empire, Braunschweig 1907 ff
• Oberstufe der Naturlehre, Braunschweig 1907 ff (continued after 1925 by Bernhard Bavink under the author names Poske and Bavink as a “textbook of physics”).
• Didactic handbooks for realistic teaching in secondary schools (together with A. Höfler), Leipzig and Berlin 10 volumes, 1910 ff