Gottlieb Anton Gruner

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Gottlieb Anton Gruner (born March 18, 1778 in Coburg ; † May 13, 1844 in Wiesbaden ) was a German pedagogue , author and director of the model school in Frankfurt am Main , later of the simultaneous state teacher seminar in Idstein .

biography

family

Gruner came from a family of civil servants and scholars based in Coburg. He was a son of the Ducal Saxon-Coburg-Saalfeld Court Councilor and Secret Secretary August Friedrich Gruner and his wife Euphrosine, born. Schröter. In 1805, Gruner married Lotte Lutz from Heilbronn , who had worked for a short time as a teacher in Pestalozzi's college at Yverdon Castle before they got married. From this marriage two daughters were born.

job

Gruner studied theology , philosophy and philology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the University of Jena from 1798 to 1800 . From 1801 to 1802 he worked as a private tutor . Then he first visited the teacher Christian Gotthilf Salzmann in the school he founded in Schnepfenthal . The subsequent stay in the educational institution Schloss Burgdorf of the school reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi shaped his further activities. In the years that followed, Gruner had extensive correspondence with his teacher and friend Pestalozzi.

After he had failed to set up his own teaching institute in Heilbronn based on Pestalozzi's ideas, he accepted a position as senior teacher and head of the model school in Frankfurt am Main in 1805 . It was the institute that was founded in 1803 by the citizens of Frankfurt as the New Citizens' School and was headed by Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode and Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel . In 1804 the name was changed to model school. Classes were based on Pestalozzi's teaching methods. In 1805 in Frankfurt Gruner got to know and appreciate Friedrich Froebel , who would later become a well-known educator. He convinced him to become a teacher at the model school.

In 1810 he settled in Heidelberg as a master of philosophy and private lecturer . After he had received his doctorate there, he was appointed to a position as professor of history and the Hebrew language at the Casimirianum high school in Coburg in 1811 , where he himself had been a student until 1797. In 1817 Gruner was appointed school inspector and in 1820 director of the simultaneous teachers' seminar in Idstein. The teachers he trained called themselves “Grunerians”. Finally, in 1824, he was awarded the title of high school councilor . In the same year, his colleague and correspondent Adolph Diesterweg , who was the head of the teachers' seminar in Moers and was an influential school politician, visited him to get pedagogical suggestions from Gruner, whose publications he valued.

Four years later, Gruner was retired for health reasons.

Publications (selection)

  • Letters from Burgdorf about Pestalozzi, his method and institution . Friedrich Perthes bookstore, Hamburg 1804.
  • Description of the current state of the local model school, with comments on what else is to be desired . Bayrhoffer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1806.
  • Reflections on the tomb of Jesus. Sermon held on Charfreytage in the Moritzkirche in Coburg . Publishing house Ahl, Coburg 1817.
  • Foundation of a teaching based on conscience and the Bible in the doctrine of virtue and faith. For use in schools, in private schools and for home education, generally for worshipers of Jesus from all confessions who want to secure themselves in possession of the moral and religious truth. 1st edition. Verlag Mohr & Winter, Heidelberg 1808 / 2nd edition. Verlag Mohr & Winter, Heidelberg 1817.
  • Attempt to scientifically justify the most important main points of educational theory with special regard to teaching in elementary schools. Dedicated to thinking teachers . Publishing house August Schmid, Jena 1821.
  • An attempt at a common, but based on self-understanding, development of the most indispensable scientific knowledge for elementary school teachers. As a facilitating introduction to educational theory . Publishing house August Schmid, Jena 1825.
  • About elementary schooling and people's ennoblement, as mutual conditions for the establishment of a better civil status . Publisher HW Ritter, Wiesbaden 1833.

Appreciation

  • Around 1900: naming of Grunerstraße in Idstein
  • 1933: Renaming of the former teachers' college in Idstein, Am Hexenturm 15–17, in Grunerschule (first elementary school, then secondary school, canceled around 1975 due to dilapidation)
  • 1963: Renaming of the school on Lehrstraße in Wiesbaden, Lehrstraße 10, to Anton-Gruner-Schule (elementary school)

literature

  • Intelligence sheet of the Jena general school newspaper of April 10, 1805 . Volume 2, No. 40. of the Jenaische Allgemeine Schulzeitung / Kurfürstlich-Sächsische Zeitung, Jena / Leipzig, 1805, Sp. 331. (digitized version )
  • New necrology of the Germans . Volume 23 (1844), part 2, Bernhard Friedr. Voigt, Weimar 1846, p. 1005. (digitized version )
  • Johann Becker: Gottlieb Anton Gruner. A sketch of his life, as a memorial from a grateful student . In: Pedagogical yearbook for teachers and school friends. Volume 8. Verlag Wilhelm Baensch, Berlin 1858, p. 1 ff. Digitalisat
  • Manfred Heinemann / Sylvia Schütze (eds.): Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. Complete Works. 2nd section, volume 24, letters, official correspondence and life documents from the years 1832 to 1847. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-005682-1 . Digitized
  • Rebekka Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler, Sandra Aebersold (arr.): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . Volume 1: 1764-1804. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung / Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Zurich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03823-511-8 . (Digitized version)
  • Emil Schmidt: Gottlieb Anton Gruner. A German schoolboy and educator from the time of the Pestalozzian movement . Publishing house of the teachers' association, Frankfurt am Main 1928.
  • Denton Jacques Snider: The Life of Frederick Froebel. Founder of Kindergarten by Denton Jacques Snider. Edited and annotated with illustrations by J [ohannes] Froebel-Parker, as a companion to The First Kindergarten. Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel & Baroness Bertha Marie von Marenholtz-Buelow. AuthorHouse, Bloomington 2013, ISBN 978-1-4918-3289-9 . Digitized
  • Kurt Werder (arrangement): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . Volume 14: Addendum, letters and letter-like documents from the years 1767 to 1826. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung / Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Zurich / Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-85823-586-5 . (Digitized version)

Web links

  • Franz Kössler: Gottlieb Anton Gruner. In: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications. Volume 7: Gabel - Guzy. Giessen Electronic Library, 2008. Giessen University Library, December 18, 2007, accessed on September 11, 2017. (Preprint)
  • CHans-Ulrich Grunder: Gottlieb Anton Gruner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 26, 2007 , accessed September 11, 2017 .
  • Gottlieb Anton Gruner . In: German biography. accessed on September 11, 2017.
  • Gottlieb Anton Gruner . In: German Digital Library. accessed on September 11, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Becker: Gottlieb Anton Gruner. A sketch of his life, as a memorial from a grateful student . In: Pedagogical yearbook for teachers and school friends . tape 8 . Verlag Wilhelm Baensch, Berlin 1858, p. 1 ff .
  2. ↑ Kurt Werder (edit.): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . tape 14 : Addendum, letters and letter-like documents from the years 1767 to 1826 . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung / Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Zurich / Berlin 1995, p. 374 .
  3. ^ Intelligence sheet of the Jenaische general school newspaper of April 10, 1805 . In: Jenaische Allgemeine Schulzeitung / Kurfürstlich-Sächsische Zeitung . Volume 2, No. 40 . Jena / Leipzig 1805, Sp. 331 .
  4. ^ Ralf Roth: City and bourgeoisie in Frankfurt am Main. A special way from the class to the modern civil society 1760-1914 . In: City and Bourgeoisie . tape 7 . Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56188-3 , p. 156 .
  5. ↑ Rebekka Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler, Sandra Aebersold (arr.): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . tape 1: 1764-1804 . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung / Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Zurich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03823-511-8 , p. 92 f .
  6. ^ Denton Jacques Snider: The Life of Frederick Froebel. Founder of kindergarten. Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel & Baroness Bertha Marie von Marenholtz-Buelow . AuthorHouse, Bloomington 2013, ISBN 978-1-4918-3289-9 , pp. 49 ff .
  7. ^ Letters, official correspondence and life documents from the years 1832 to 1847 . In: Manfred Heinemann / Sylvia Schütze (ed.): Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. All works . 2nd section, 24th volume. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-005682-1 , pp. 39 .
  8. ^ Franz Kössler: Gottlieb Anton Gruner . In: University Library Gießen (Hrsg.): Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications . tape 7 : fork - Guzy. , December 18, 2007 ( uni-giessen.de [accessed on September 8, 2017] preprint. Giessener Electronic Library 2008).
  9. ↑ Rebekka Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler, Sandra Aebersold (arr.): All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Critical edition . tape 1: 1764-1804 . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung / Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Zurich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03823-511-8 , p. 619 .
  10. ^ New necrology of the Germans . tape 23 (1844), part 2. Bernhard Friedr. Voigt, Weimar 1846, p. 1005 .
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, Gottlieb Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruner, Anton; Gruner, Gottlob Anton; Gruner, Theophilus Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1844
Place of death Wiesbaden