Friedrich Wilhelm Gotthilf Frog

Friedrich Wilhelm Gotthilf Frosch (born January 17, 1776 in Berlin , † August 2, 1834 in Potsdam ) was a Brandenburg preacher and schoolboy.

Frosch, son of a silk weaver , became a teacher at the Knight Academy in Brandenburg Cathedral in 1799 after studying in Halle (Saale) . In 1808 he took over the Krahne parish, made famous by the school reformer Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow (1734–1805) . Frosch's work for the rural school reform began a year after he took up his post in Krahn after meeting the Kurmärkische Oberkonsistorialrat Bernhard Christoph Ludwig Natorp (1774–1846), who had joined the Brandenburg provincial government in 1809 as an expert on questions of the lower school system. Frosch followed Natorp's intention to increase teacher training through decentralized further education institutes and founded the first Brandenburg school teacher conference society on January 2, 1810, the foundation day of the von Rochow model school, and a little later a school teacher seminar to train new elementary teachers.

Memorial stone in Reckahn

When Gotthilf Frosch left Krahne in 1814 and became a preacher in Groß Behnitz , he continued his school reform work and again opened a rural school teacher seminar. In Groß Behnitz he trained a total of 142 teachers by 1825. His former students held a teachers' festival here in 1851, almost 20 years after his death, and set up a frog foundation. In the ten years before his death, Frosch worked in Potsdam at the Great Military Orphanage as a preacher and head of the school system.

The Rochow Museum in Reckahn near Brandenburg is a reminder of Frosch's work for teacher training .

literature

• Otto Günther Beckmann, Peter Blankenburg: Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow and Friedrich Wilhelm Gotthilf Frosch - pioneers of teacher training around 1800. Reckahn: School Museum, 2000
• Evangelical pastors book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation . Published by the Brandenburg Provincial Synodal Association. Second volume, first part: Directory of the clergy in alphabetical order. First part: Abbadie to Major. Edited by Otto Fischer, Berlin 1941
• LW Seyffarth: Prussia and Pestalozzi . 35th episode: For school improvement in the Kurmark . In: Pestalozzi studies. Monthly journal for Pestalozzi research, communications and reflections. 5 (1900), p. 97 ff.