Heinrich Viehoff

Heinrich Viehoff (born April 28, 1804 in Büttgen , † August 5, 1886 in Trier ) was a German high school teacher .

Life

Viehoff was the son of the farm owner and teacher Heinrich Viehoff. He was Catholic and married to Wilhelma, born Gracher.

Viehoff attended the collegium in Neuss and the grammar school in Düsseldorf. From 1824 he studied philology, mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Bonn , among others with August Wilhelm Schlegel . In 1827 he passed the teaching examination and then completed the probationary year at the grammar school in Düsseldorf. In 1828 he became a teacher at the Progymnasium in Uerdingen and then worked as an educator in noble families, including with the Count of Westphalia. In 1833 he became a grammar school teacher in Emmerich am Rhein, in 1838 first teacher, in 1842 senior teacher and in 1848 professor at the municipal secondary school in Düsseldorf . In 1850 he became director of the secondary school 1st order and the provincial trade school in Trier. In 1875 he retired.

In 1843 he founded the archive for teaching German in grammar schools, secondary schools and higher education institutions , the first specialist magazine for German teaching. However, the magazine had to be discontinued after a short time because there were no committed supporters.

Still, improving literacy and language teaching remained one of his major concerns. Together with his colleague Ludwig Herrig (1816–1889), he therefore founded the archive for the study of modern languages ​​and literatures in 1846 in order to provide future teachers with a further training organ.

In addition, Viehoff is one of the founders of a new Goethe literature, the basis of which was a thorough study of the Goethe letters.

From 1849 he was a member of the city council of Düsseldorf. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Publications

• Goethe's life, spiritual development and works. 4th edition. Stuttgart 1877.
• as translator: Mosella . Trier 1895.

literature

• Eduard Schröder:  Viehoff, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 400-402.
• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 318-319.