Heinrich Reiser (teacher)

Heinrich Reiser (1805-1889)

Heinrich Reiser (born May 8, 1805 in Gammertingen , † April 25, 1889 in Kapfenberg , Styria) was a German model teacher, educational writer , composer and musician .

Live and act

Heinrich Reiser was born as the son of Johann Baptist Reiser (1771–1823) and Antonia Reiser, nee Teufel (1775–1849) into a craftsman's household. The father was a bag maker, the mother a daughter of the Gammertinger crown host Heinrich Teufel, in whose name the child was baptized. Heinrich completed his school days with his uncle Anton Reiser (1759-1829), his father's older brother, and his son Anton jr. (1787–1838), who inspired the young Heinrich to become a teacher and, as accomplished violinists, also took care of the musical training of his nephew and cousin. City pastor Ludwig Kiener (1783-1851) took care of Latin lessons.

After attending school in Gammertingen, Reiser presumably completed an apprenticeship with a school preparation teacher and then passed the teaching examination that has been required in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen since 1818. In 1821 Reiser took over his first teaching post in Salmendingen, initially limited to three years. During this time Reiser met the music director of the University Friedrich Silcher in Tübingen , who gave him lessons in composition and composition.

Since the mid-1820s Reiser taught at the school in the Hohenzollern parish village of Storzingen . Here too Reiser found the opportunity to cultivate his musical talents. In the pastor Franz Xaver Eisele (1765–1832) Reiser found a mentor who gave him the opportunity to improve his violin playing in a string quartet and gave him suggestions for singing lessons. In the autumn of 1831 Reiser moved again to Salmendingen, where he was now given a permanent position. From there, Reiser often attended concerts by the Hechinger Hofkapelle, which had developed into a highly acclaimed orchestra under the direction of the violin virtuoso Thomas T Tagesbeck .

In the fall of 1838 Heinrich Reiser was transferred to the primary school in his birthplace, where he worked as a teacher for over thirty years. The position in the Hohenzollern Oberamtsstadt was better paid, but his duties also included the service as organist (and sacristan) at the Catholic parish church. He was also responsible for the church choir, for which he composed songs and mass chants. As early as 1831 Reiser had married Ursula Eisele (1813–1875) from Trochtelfingen in Salmendingen . Eight children were born to the couple between 1835 and 1855. Reiser's musical talent also took effect here: two of his children turned their family passion into a profession, their son Friedrich Hermann (1839–1879) as a music teacher and composer and their daughter Emmeline Antonie (1844–1917) as an opera singer.

As early as August 1838, Reiser had received the appointment of "model teacher" for the two-year training of "school service students" from the government in Sigmaringen. Young men were able to prepare for school service with these selected teachers. To this end, they were taught the relevant school subjects and were able to gain their first teaching experience. Reiser attached great importance to the musical training of his pupils, but also physical training was on the program under the sign of the gymnastics movement.

Reiser belonged to a generation of teachers who pushed ahead with the planned expansion of elementary schools and elementary schools and who also emerged from the journalistic perspective by writing relevant teaching materials. In addition, Reiser tried to raise the reputation of the teaching profession and to improve its social recognition and material security.

Reiser was not only active in professional politics; twice, in 1842 and 1845, he was elected to the state parliament of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , and Reiser was also represented as a deputy in the extraordinary state parliament of 1848. The vigilante group in Gammertingen, formed in the course of the revolution, appointed Reiser to the officer's rank as Kapellmeister.

At the age of 63 Heinrich Reiser retired in 1867 due to hearing loss and moved with his wife and daughter to Rheinfelden , where his son Friedrich Hermann worked as organist and choir director. Even in his retirement, Reise continued his literary work and was busy revising his textbooks, some of which had been published in revised editions over decades. After the death of Friedrich Hermann (1879) Reiser moved to his younger son Fridolin in Styria. Fridolin Reiser had been the smelter manager of the cast steel factory in Kapfenberg since 1868, where he had made a name for himself as a pioneer of blast furnace technology. Heinrich Reiser died in Kapfenberg in 1889 at the age of 84.

Fonts

• Small description of the earth for elementary and Sunday school and for self-teaching for everyone , Hechingen 1835.
• Materials for mental arithmetic for all school classes , Reutlingen 1835.
• Materials for blackboard arithmetic in progressive order. Set up and calculated for elementary schools , Reutlingen 1844.
• Church music as it is - and how it should be , in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 4 (1845), pp. 51-60 ( digital )
• What are the legal means of acquiring children's love? in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 4 (1845), pp. 122–125 ( digital )
• Faith, love and hope (poem), in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 4 (1845), p. 396 ( digital )
• Unprejudiced views of the hardships of the school teacher stand , in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 5 (1846), pp. 58-77 ( digital )
• Clavier school for children , Stuttgart 1846.
• Three-part songs for the more mature youth in German schools , Stuttgart 1846.
• Reply to the "response" of the teachers of the "Leseverein in der Regiunkel Killerthal", in the principality of Hohenzollern Hechingen, regarding my article "Unprejudiced views of the difficulties of the school teacher" , in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 6 (1847), pp. 106-109 ( Digital )
• How should a school teacher behave in order to treat the awakening of the sexual instinct in his schoolchildren, which sometimes already occurs during the school years, on the one hand, and to protect them from harmful outbreaks and deviations on the other? in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 6 (1847), pp. 121–132 ( digital )
• What resources are available to the school teacher to improve the neglected home education? in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 6 (1847), pp. 230–235 ( digital )
• Songs with a light piano accompaniment , Stuttgart 1847.
• What kind of objects, how and how much of each object should be taught in the advanced training school? in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 9 (1850), pp. 213–218 ( digital )
• Lessons via the calendar , in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 8 (1949), pp. 136–141 ( digital )
• What are the requirements for a good written essay? in: Der Deutsche Schulbote 9 (1850), pp. 310–315 ( digital )
• The letter school. Instructions for writing letters , Stuttgart 1852.
• Brief German language teaching. The grammar with the analytical language lessons, together with instructions for spelling and the written presentation of thoughts for elementary schools, edited , Stuttgart 1852.
• The German elementary school student. A language and reading book for upper classes in upper elementary schools , Stuttgart 1852.
• The German elementary school pupil in the middle class , Stuttgart 1852.
• Brief German language teaching , Stuttgart 1852.
• The Styl School , Stuttgart 1861.
• Textbook and reading book for advanced training schools , Stuttgart 1861
• Character pictures from Prussian history for school and home , Stuttgart, 1863.
• Education and instruction. Treatises and discussions on the most important questions from the fields of pedagogy, methodology, didactics, music lessons and the professional life of the teacher in general , Aarau 1871.
• German language lessons, carried out on thirty sample pieces. A handbook for giving complete and intelligent instruction in the mother tongue , Stuttgart 1876.

literature

• Helmut Göggel: model teacher Heinrich Reiser from Gammertingen , in: Hohenzollerische Heimat 57 (2007), pp. 57–61.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Bailer, J .: Collection of laws and ordinances on elementary schooling in the Hohenzollern'schen Landen, Sigmaringen 1864
2. ↑ See Reiser, Heinrich: Education and Teaching. Aarau 1871, preface and introduction, p. III.
3. ^ Reiser, Heinrich: Education and teaching. Aarau 1871, p. IV
4. ↑ Burkarth, Herbert: The Revolution 1848/49 in Gammertingen , in: For the cause of freedom, the people and the republic , Sigmaringen 1998, p. 109.