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Gottlob Dittmar (born May 30, 1839 in Grünstadt , † January 15, 1891 in Cottbus ) was a German educator , historian and author.

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Gottlob Dittmar was born the son of the grammar school director Heinrich Dittmar from Grünstadt and his third wife Philippina geb. Moré († 1876).

He attended the Zweibrücken grammar school and studied classical philology and history at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen from the fall of 1857 . In Göttingen he became a student of the historian Ernst Curtius , the later Heidelberg law professor Richard Schröder was one of his friends and fellow students from the Göttingen time.

In 1861 Gottlob Dittmar passed his state examination in Munich and in 1862 became a teacher at what was then Progymnasium Grünstadt , later in Kirchheimbolanden .

In 1868 he switched from the Bavarian to the Prussian civil service and went as a teacher or first senior teacher at the Neuwied grammar school . In 1882 Dittmar took over the management of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cottbus as director , which he held until his sudden death.

Gottlob Dittmar wrote several books, including a. a three-volume “History of the German People” and a “Brandenburg-Prussian History since 1648, in connection with German history” . His best-known work was the collection of children's stories - poems and songs entitled "The Children's Pleasure" , published in 1872 , which he dedicated to his own mother. It was published several times.

literature

  • Bettina Hurrelmann: Handbook on children's and youth literature: From 1850 to 1900 , column 1090, Springer Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-476-00027-3 ; (Digital scan)
  • Gottlob Dittmar: History of the German People , Volume 3, Foreword, 1892; (Digital scan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Bavarian Philologists: Blätter für das Gymnasial-Schulwesen , Volume 29, 1893, p. 262; (Detail scan)
  2. ↑ Gottlob Dittmar: History of the German People , Volume 3, Foreword, 1892, pp. V ff.
  3. ↑ Bettina Hurrelmann: Handbook on children's and youth literature: From 1850 to 1900 , column 212, Springer Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-476-00027-3 ; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Dittmar, thank goodness
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1891
Place of death cottbus