Gustav Adolf Lindner

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GA Lindner

Gustav Adolf Lindner (born March 11, 1828 in Rożdalowitz , Bohemia , † October 16, 1887 in Prague ) was a Bohemian pedagogue, psychologist, philosopher and sociologist. He was one of the first representatives of Herbartianism in Bohemia and is considered a pioneer of Czechoslovak sociology.

Lindner grew up bilingual as the son of a brewer, attended elementary school and high school in Jungbunzlau and Prague and then studied at the still unified German-Czech University in Prague , where he learned about Herbart's teaching . From 1846 to 1848 he attended a seminary, but then broke off his studies and finished his academic training at Prague University.

After years as a high school teacher, school inspector and director of the Czech teacher training institute in Kuttenberg , Lindner was the first professor of education, psychology and ethics at Charles University in Prague from 1882. In 1879 he founded the first Czech educational journal Paedogogium .

In the field of sociology he coined the term "social psychology" . He understood the "social psyche" as a component of every individual consciousness but also as a component of the whole of society.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Secret of Happiness , 1868 (German; Czech edition 1931)
  • Ideas on the Psychology of Society as the Basis of Social Science , 1871 (German; Czech edition 1929)
  • Pedagogy based on the teaching of natural, cultural and moral development, 1888 (Czech).

literature

  • Jan Koukal: Lindner, Gustav Adolf. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 251.
  • Gerald Grimm: Gustav Adolf Lindner as a pioneer of the pedagogy of Herbartianism in the Habsburg monarchy , in ders. And Erik Adam (eds.), The pedagogy of Herbartianism in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , Vienna, Lit-Verlag, 2009, p. 21– 25th
  • Ferdinand Sander :  Lindner, Gustav Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 738 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian pedagogue, psychologist, philosopher and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Rożdalowitz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1887
Place of death Prague