Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow

Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow

Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow (born July 6, 1817 in Schleswig ; † March 11, 1883 in Kiel ) was a German professor of philosophy , art collector and founder of the Thaulow Museum in Kiel .

family

Thaulow came from the Norwegian family Thaulow: His parents were the Apenrader administrative administrator Johan Frederik Thaulow (1768-1833) and his wife Caroline Henriette Tugendreich Looft (1777-1852). After the father's death, the mother and her children went to Norway, which had belonged to the entire Danish state until the Peace of Kiel on January 14, 1814 . Gustav Ferdinand Thaulows, who stayed in Schleswig, had three brothers:

• Heinrich Arnold Thaulow (1808-1894), doctor
• Moritz Christian Julius Thaulow (1812–1850), chemist
• Harald Conrad Thaulow (1815–1881), pharmacist and chemist, father of the painter Frits Thaulow .

Life

Thaulow Museum on the Sophienblatt in Kiel (1893)

In Schleswig Thaulow attended the cathedral school . From 1837 he studied theology and philosophy at the Universities of Kiel and Berlin . Because he did not have the means to continue his studies, he became tutor to the von Bülow family at Gut Bothkamp and then obtained his doctorate in 1842. phil. in Kiel. In 1843 he completed his habilitation at this university as a private lecturer in philosophy and preferably in education. In 1846 he became an associate professor of philosophy and in 1854 a full professor of philosophy and education, most recently he was also a lecturer at the Naval Academy and Knight of the Order of the Crowns III. Class, 1878 Privy Councilor.

In philosophy, Thaulow belonged to the Hegelian school . In 1849 he founded the Schleswig-Holstein school newspaper. He started a collection of woodcut works in his home. In 1876 he donated this collection to the province of Schleswig-Holstein , which then built the Thaulow Museum named after him .

When the collection of Schleswig-Holstein antiquities was transferred to Copenhagen when it separated from Denmark , he campaigned for this collection to be returned and taken to the Kiel Museum of Antiquities. After Professor Fricke left the University of Leipzig, he took over the directorate of the Schleswig-Holstein main association of the Gustav Adolph Foundation for sixteen years . In Kiel, Thaulow was a member of the Alma Masonic Lodge on the Baltic Sea .

He worked as a lecturer at the Marine Academy in Kiel for ten years. Its director showed him an extraordinarily keen interest in the navy and a great enthusiasm for his teaching post.

Publications

• Mine Ønsker for det norske Universitet. [= My wishes for the Norwegian university]. In: Norske universitets- og skole-annaler, 2. række, 1. bind. Edited by HJ Thue. Christiania: J. Chr. Abelsted. Pp. 311-350. 1843
• The elevation of pedagogy to philosophical science. 1845
• Necessity and importance of a pedagogical seminar at the university. 1845
• The school of the future. 1846
• National education plan. 1848
• Hegel's views on education and instruction. As a ferment for scientific pedagogy, as well as for instruction and stimulation for educated parents and teachers of all kinds. Collected from all of Hegel's writings and systematically arranged. 3 volumes. Academic bookshop, Kiel 1853
• The Kiel Art Museum. A signpost through the same; at the same time a short introduction to the study of art. Kiel 1853
  • Partial reprint in: Christa Geckeler (Ed.): Memories of Kiel in Danish times 1773/1864. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-89876-618-0 , pp. 33-35
• High school pedagogy in plan. 1857
• Fifty-five Themes from Legal Philosophy. 1858
• The Kiel Art Museum. A guide through the same and at the same time a brief introduction to the study of art. Kiel 1857, 2nd edition 1860
• The European equilibrium through the Peace of Prague d. J. 1866.
• The festivities at the inauguration of Kiel University in October 1665. Kiel 1862, new edition 1876
• Introduction to Philosophy and Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the Outline or Method of Philosophical Study.
• The reorganization of Germany with the Peace of Prague on August 23, 1866. Kiel 1867
• The Christian-Albrechts Stift at Kiel University. Kiel 1881
• Advice on anthropological research on naval expeditions. Berlin 1874

literature

• Wilhelm Brinkmann : The craft of teaching: Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow and the establishment of the educational seminar at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel . In: Education as a Discipline and Profession - Historical Perspectives on the Future. Contributions to the 350th anniversary of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , ed. v. Manfred Böge and Marc Fabian Buck. Peter Lang, Berlin 2019, pp. 57–84.
• S.-H. School newspaper 1883 No. 12.
• Alberti: S.-H. Writers' Lexicon II 454 and continuation II 306.
• F. Volbehr, in: Kiel University Chronicle 1884/85 and separately.
• Carsten Erich Carstens:  Thaulow, Gustav Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 659 f.

source

• Thaulow Museum. GSHG, accessed March 6, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary Kieler Zeitung March 13, 1883