Heinrich Wolgast (pedagogue)

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Heinrich Wolgast (born October 26, 1860 in Jersbek ; † August 29, 1920 in Hamburg ) was a German reform pedagogue .

Life

Heinrich Wolgast was born in 1860 as the son of a village blacksmith in Jersbek north of Hamburg. After attending the teachers' seminar in Segeberg , he passed his teaching exams in Hamburg in 1882. He then worked until his death in 1920 as a primary school teacher, principal teacher and principal at various Hamburg schools. Soon after starting his school service, he became involved in the “Association of Hamburg Elementary School Teachers” and took an active part in the content-related discussion of educational issues. As a longstanding member of the committee of the Hamburg School Synod, he was active in school reform.

Close to social democracy, Heinrich Wolgast became known as a literary pedagogue. He criticized a “specific” youth literature which, as trivial mass literature, only satisfies the need for entertainment, and called for an artistic education of the youth through aesthetically sophisticated literature. In 1888 Wolgast became a co-founder of the "Youth Writings Committee" of the "Association of Hamburg Elementary School Teachers". As a co-founder of the “United German Examination Committees for Youth Writings” he acted from 1896 to 1912 as editor of the magazine “ Jugendschriften-Warte ”. In this function he triggered the trash literature debate and had a formative effect on the youth literature movement.

Works

  • The misery of our youth literature . Self-published, Hamburg 1899, 2nd edition
  • From the children's book . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1905 (reprinted 1925)
  • Whole people . Wunderlich, Leipzig 1913

See also

literature

  • dtv lexicon in 20 volumes . FA Brockhaus and Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1992, vol. 20
  • Borstel, Fritz von: Heinrich Wolgast to the memory . In: Pedagogical Reform 1920, No. 36, pp. 1 ff.
  • Ewers, Hans-Heino: The topicality of Heinrich Wolgast. Lecture on the 100th anniversary of the Working Group on Youth Literature and Media (VJA) . In: Contributions to youth literature and the media 1993/4, pp. 210–217

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personal data
SURNAME Wolgast, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersbek near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1920
Place of death Hamburg