Heinrich Graefe
Heinrich Graefe (born March 3, 1802 in Buttstädt ; † July 21, 1868 in Bremen ) was a German pedagogue who worked, among other things, in the field of general pedagogy .
biography
Graefe was the son of a craftsman. He attended grammar school in Weimar and studied mathematics and then theology in Jena . During his studies he became a member of the Jena fraternity in 1820 . He was in Weimar as a spiritual teacher at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium and in 1825 became rector of the city school in Jena.
He became known through several writings a. a. General pedagogy , school law , school reform with special reference to the Kingdom of Saxony (Leipzig 1834) as well as through the magazine Die Deutsche Volksschule , which were banned in Austria and Prussia. In 1840 he became an associate professor of education at the University of Jena . In 1842 he was appointed rector of the community school in Kassel , where he later became director of the secondary school he set up.
In 1848 and in the following years Graefe developed a lively activity in public life a. a. as a shop steward for the Kurhessian elementary school teachers, as a liberal member of the Left in the Kurhessische Estates assembly (1849) and as a member of the high school commission. However, after a long investigation on February 19, 1852, after a long investigation, he was sentenced to a three-year fortress sentence under the “ best-hated man of Kurhessen ” Minister Ludwig Hassenpflug for his writing The Constitutional Struggle in Kurhessen (Leipzig 1851). This sentence was later reduced to one year.
Graefe then went to Switzerland in 1853 and became a teacher at Achilles Roediger's teaching and education institute . In 1855 he was asked by Bremen to set up a higher middle school. He was appointed director of this school (from 1868 secondary school in the old town ). He ran the prestigious school until his death. Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau followed him as director in 1868 .
Graefe also founded a preparatory school and a secondary school for girls in 1858, which his Kassel friend Janson then ran.
Most important writings
- The legal relationship of the elementary school inside and outside ( Quedlinburg 1829)
- General pedagogy (Leipzig 1845, 2 vols.)
- The German elementary school according to the totality of its circumstances (Leipzig 1847, 2 vol .; 3rd edition by Schumann, Jena 1877–1879, 3 vol.)
- Handbook of the natural history of the three kingdoms (with Naumann, 1838)
- Archives for the practical elementary school system (Jena and Eisleben 1828–1835, 8 vols.)
literature
- Gustav Emil Lothholz: Count , Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 556 f.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Hinrich Wulff: Count, Heinrich Gotthilf Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 711 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Count, Heinrich . In: Meyers Konversationslexikon, 4th edition 1885-1892, Vol. 7.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 392-393.
Individual evidence
- ^ Letters, official letters and life documents from the years 1832 to 1847, edited by Manfred Heinemann / Sylvia Schütze, p. 790 google.books
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graefe, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Count, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buttstädt |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1868 |
| Place of death | Bremen |