Gideon Vogt

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Karl Johann Gideon Wilhelm Philipp Vogt (born December 31, 1830 in Kassel ; † April 30, 1904 there ) was a German philologist and pedagogue and from 1870 to 1893 director of the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel, which emerged from the Lyceum Fridericianum . During his tenure, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II was a student there from 1874 to 1877.

Life

Vogt's father was the Eisenach inspector of the Hessian teachers' seminar August Wilhelm Jakob Vogt, who after the relocation of the seminar to Homberg in 1835 made an outstanding contribution to the Hessian primary school system as a school clerk in the Ministry of the Interior and died in Kassel in 1863 as an archivist. From 1840 to 1849 Gideon was a student at the Lyceum Fridericianum, which became grammar school in 1840, and then studied philology at the University of Marburg . After passing his state examination in 1853, he was an intern at the Lyceum Fridericianum for a year and then from 1854 to 1856 a teacher at a private school in Vevey ( Switzerland ). There followed two years until 1858 as a teacher at the Lyceum Fridericianum, which he used in 1857 to complete and defend his dissertation . In 1857 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg. From 1858 to 1862 he was a teacher at the grammar school in Elberfeld .

In 1862 Vogt was appointed director of the humanistic state high school in the Principality of Waldeck , today's Old State School , in Korbach . In 1867 he switched to the Royal High School in Wetzlar as director , and in 1870 he succeeded Georg Wilhelm Matthias as director of the Lyceum Fridericianum, where he had once attended school. He held this position until April 1, 1893. One of his students was the Prussian Prince Wilhelm, who later became Kaiser Wilhelm II, who entered the upper secondary school in the fall of 1874 and completed the upper prima in January 1877 with his Abitur . During these two and a half years, Vogt was not only his rector, but also his Latin and Greek teacher. Kaiser Wilhelm I awarded Vogt the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern on the occasion of his grandson's Abitur .

The attraction of the school, also brought about by the education of the prince, led to such an increase in the number of pupils that the capacity of the lyceum was no longer sufficient. In May 1886 a second grammar school was inaugurated in Kassel, the "Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium" . Some of the teachers and students at the school, now known as the “Königliches Friedrichs-Gymnasium (Lyceum Fridericianum)”, moved to the new school, but Vogt remained the head of the old regular school.

In the wake of a conference held in Berlin in 1890 to discuss a reform of the higher education system, at the opening of which Kaiser Wilhelm II, citing his own high school days, expressed extremely negative comments on the concept of the humanistic high school, there were numerous attacks in the press Friedrichsgymnasium and its director. Georg Ernst Hinzpeter , the emperor's advisor and former educator, felt compelled to confirm to Vogt in an official telegram that the school had largely fulfilled the expectations placed on it in the education of the prince. The emperor himself also endeavored to express his benevolence to Vogt: he appointed him privy councilor and invited him several times to his table on later visits to Kassel.

Vogt retired on April 1, 1893. His successor as director of the Friedrichsgymnasium was Friedrich Heussner (1842–1917). Vogt died eleven years later, on April 30, 1904.

Marriage and offspring

Vogt was married to Luise Sophie geb. Cauer (1840–1918), daughter of the tenant of the Fasanenhof state domain , Paul Ehrhard Cauer (1796–1862) and his wife Caroline, b. Sexton. The couple had son Paul August Heinrich Otto Gottfried Vogt (1860-1927), who received his doctorate and was a private scholar, and the daughter Johanna Vogt (1862-1944), the 1919 became the first woman councilor in Kassel, but in 1933 after the seizure of National Socialists had to give up this office.

Awards

In addition to the Eagle of the Knights of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, awarded to him in 1877, Vogt received the Prussian Red Eagle Order IV Class and the Princely Waldeck Order of Merit II Class in 1879 as well as the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit in 1880 .

Publications

As a scientific author, Vogt stood out primarily with his four-part monograph on the didactician and pedagogue Wolfgang Ratke (1571–1635), who called himself Wolfgangus Ratichius :

Footnotes

  1. ^ De rebus Megarensium usque ad bella Persica . Dissertation Marburg 1857.
  2. ↑ FGC Groß: Statistical retrospectives on the history of the grammar school , in: Program from the school years 1860/61 as an invitation to the on 18. u. March 19, 1861 in the auditorium of the grammar school. Public exams and closing ceremonies take place. Kassel, 1861, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Named after the Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm I.
  4. ^ Cauer, Paul Ehrhard, in: Hessische Biographie (LAGIS)
  5. ^ Vogt, Karl Johann Gideon Wilhelm Philipp, in: Hessische Biographie (LAGIS)
  6. ^ Gideon Vogt: Statistical retrospectives on the history of the grammar school, school program of the Fridericianum, Easter 1885 , p. 5 (online) .

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SURNAME Vogt, Gideon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogt, Karl Johann Gideon Wilhelm Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and headmaster
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1904
Place of death kassel