Gustav Friedrich Dinter

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Gustav Friedrich Dinter, lithograph 1837
Monument in front of the dinner school in Borna
Honor roll in the St. Augustin Grimma high school (in the passage of the main portal)

Christian Gustav Friedrich Dinter (born February 29, 1760 in Borna ; † May 29, 1831 in Königsberg ) was a Protestant theologian and educator .

Life

Memorial plaque in Kitzscher

Dinter was born on February 29th in Borna (Saxony) as the son of a lawyer. From 1773 to 1779 he attended the Princely School in Grimma . From 1779 on he studied theology, philosophy and philology in Leipzig .

After working as a private tutor for a short time, Dinter worked in Kitzscher (south of Leipzig) as a preacher (parish substitute) from 1787 and finally as a pastor from 1790. At the same time he organized the elementary school system there and trained teachers in a private seminar.

In 1797, due to his success, Dinter was appointed director of the seminary in Dresden-Friedrichstadt by the senior consistorial councilor Franz Volkmar Reinhard . The methodological focus of the Dresden seminar for Dinter was not the quantity of knowledge, but rather clarity, determination and skill in presenting. Here he brought the developing Socratic method, which had already been tried and tested in Kitzscher, to flower in catechization . This method was essentially inspired by Johann Bernhard Basedow .

In 1807 Dinter left the Friedrichstadt teacher training college to take up a pastor's office again, this time in Görnitz . There he opened a Progymnasium.

In 1816 Dinter became a school and consistorial councilor in Königsberg . In 1822 he became an extraordinary professor of theology there. Dinter died in Königsberg on May 29, 1831.

Rationalism and the School Teacher's Bible Project

Behind them was Johann Peter Miller (1725–1789) and Johann Christian Dolz, one of the representatives of rational catechetics . Although the basic attitude was conservative, he was in the tradition of the late Enlightenment . The truths of faith of Christianity should above all be made comprehensible and popularized through reason. The most significant testimony to these efforts is the nine volumes of the “School Teacher's Bible”, on which he worked from 1824 to 1830 and in which the biblical stories are told in a simple way, i.e. prepared for teaching. With this he created a standard work for elementary school teacher training in the 19th century. The "school teacher bible" was opposed by orthodoxy. As an orthodox counter-project, the school teacher bible of pastor Christian Philipp Heinrich Brandt from Roth ( Franconia ) was created.

Works (selection)

  • The most excellent rules of catechetics, as a guide for the teaching of future teachers in community and rural schools. Neustadt an der Orla 1802.
  • School improvement plan for rural schools. Neustadt an der Orla and Ziegenrück 1803.
  • Small speeches to future primary school teachers. Four volumes, Neustadt an der Orla 1803–1805.
  • The most excellent rules of pedagogy, methodology and schoolmaster's wisdom, intended as a guide for the teaching of future teachers in community and rural schools. Leipzig 1806.
  • Malwina. A book for mothers. Neustadt an der Orla 1818.
  • History of religion. Neustadt an der Orla 1823.
  • School Teacher's Bible. Nine volumes, Neustadt an der Orla 1826–1830.
  • Dinter's life described by himself. A reading book for parents and educators, for pastors, school inspectors and school teachers. With a fac simile. Neustadt an der Orla 1829.

Work edition

  • All writings. Edited by Johann Christoph Basilius Wilhelm, 29 volumes, Neustadt an der Orla 1840–1860.

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personal data
SURNAME Dinter, Gustav Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dinter, Christian Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Borna
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1831
Place of death Koenigsberg