Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff , also Henri Ollendorff (* 1803 in Rawicz near Posen , † April 3, 1865 in Paris ), was a German grammar writer and language teacher. His method for the lively learning of foreign languages for adults, which has become known as the Ollendorff method , especially developed using French, is based on the method of the French language teacher Jean Manesca .
Life
As a young man, Ollendorff emigrated to London, where he used his own method for learning German, which deviated from the traditional teaching method and which he refined over the years to become the Ollendorff method.
In 1830 he moved to Paris, where he edited various textbooks for foreign languages as a publisher. There he adapted his teaching methods for German and French for Italian, Spanish, modern Greek and other languages.
His work Méthode de l'Allemand à l'Usage des Français , 1833 was approved by the French Minister of Education Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy for public instruction in French schools, which led to fierce polemics among French intellectuals.
As it was mentioned in a work by Basil Hall ( Schloss Hainfeld, or: Ein Winter in Steiermark , Engl. A Winter in Lower Styria , 1836), his method soon found great popularity.
Soon his works were distributed in Frankfurt am Main as pirated printing by the publishing house Carl Jügel because of the French copyright law that did not apply there .
On the advice of Salomon Munk, he sent his work to the University of Jena , which awarded him a doctorate for it.
His method became an international success during his lifetime and found its way into world literature several times after his death.
For example, August Strindberg refers to Ollendorff's teaching method in his scandalous novella Lohn der Tugend (1884). Here Ollendorff's progressive method is used at a girls' school, with the female students already speaking French after two years, while the male high school students still cannot utter a word after six years. These justify their inability with a quote from Talleyrand : “ La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée ” (translation: language is given to man in order to hide his thoughts).
- Vilket förakt för allt som var nyttigt! Systrarne, which läste Ollendorffs franska grammatika, the customer tala franska efter två års förlopp, grammar school customer inte säga ett proper sex år. Och med vilket överhögt medlidande de uttalade orders Ollendorff, såsom inbegreppet av allt dumt, which varjort sedan världen skapades.
- Men när Systrarne begärde en förklaring och frågade, om icke språket var gjort för att uttrycka ärniskans tankar, så svarade den unge sofisten med en fras, lånad av en lärare, som sett den citeras såsom Talleyrands: Nej, språket attans dölja tankar. The customer naturligtvis inte en ung flicka fatta, ty sina infamier förstå men att dölja, men hon trodde att brodern var rysligt lärd and hon disputerade icke vidare.
Even HG Wells impressed in his novel The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) used the term Ollendorffisch in reference to its learning method.
- Yesterday he bled and wept, "said the Satyr." You never bleed nor weep. The Master does not bleed or weep. "" Ollendorffian beggar! "Said Montgomery," you'll bleed and weep if you don't look out! "
One of his sons is the Parisian bookseller and publisher Paul Ollendorff , who is also known for his collaboration with the Karl Baedeker publishing house on the edition of primarily the French-language travel guide editions before the First World War.
Works
- Petit Traité sur la Déclinaison Allemande
- Méthode Appliquée à l'Allemand (also translated into English and into Gujarati)
- Méthode de l'Allemand à l'Usage des Français, 1833
- HG Ollendorff's new method of learning to read, write and speak a language in six months - edited according to its grammar for English and to learn French for school and private lessons, 13th edition, Frankfurt, Carl Jügel's Verlag, 1864. 613 pages
- New way of learning to read, write and speak a language in six months. Edited for French for use by Germans by Dr. HG Ollendorff, eleventh, carefully improved original edition, Altenburg, HA Pierer publishing house, 1882
literature
- Jean Manesca, An Oral System for Teaching Living Language, Illustrated by A Practical Course of Lessons in the French.
Web links
- Ollendorff, Henri. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ollendorff, Heinrich Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ollendorff, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German grammar writer and language teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rawicz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1865 |
| Place of death | Paris |