Helmut Engelbrecht

Helmut Engelbrecht (born November 13, 1924 in Ysper ; † November 23, 2014 in Krems an der Donau ) was an Austrian pedagogue and educational historian .

Live and act

Helmut Engelbrecht was born the son of a gendarmerie officer. He attended the Piarist high school in Krems and was then three years in the German armed forces and then briefly in American captivity. From 1945 he studied history , German and philosophy at the University of Vienna and graduated after three years with a teaching certificate. In 1948 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Austrian employees of the historical-political papers between 1867 and the end of the century.

Helmut Engelbrecht taught as a high school teacher at various schools in Lower Austria . From 1970 to 1989 he was the director of the Piarist High School in Krems, where he initiated the major renovation and expansion. At the same time, he has made a contribution to the history of the Austrian education system. At the University of Vienna he worked as a lecturer from 1967 and as an honorary professor from 1987, where he held the lecture "History of Austrian Education", which is mandatory for prospective high school teachers. A total of 150 publications on the historiography of education appeared under his name.

Helmut Engelbrecht was married, father of 3 children and grandfather of 7 grandchildren.

Awards

• 1998 Honorary doctorate from the University of Klagenfurt "in recognition of his services to research into Austrian educational history"
• 2005 Science Award of the State of Lower Austria
• 2008 Wilhelm Hartel Prize "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the history of the Austrian education system"
• 2014 honorary member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Publications

• The unified school concept in Austria in the 19th century. In: Austria in history and literature. ISSN  0029-8743 , Vol. 15, 1971, pp. 3-13.
• Teachers' associations in the struggle for status and influence. On the history of the professional organizations of secondary school teachers in Austria. Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1978.
• JI Felbiger and the standardization of the primary school system in Austria. Comments on the pedagogical text "Core of the method book, especially for country school masters in the imperial-royal states" (1777). Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1979 (supplement to the reprint “Kern des Methodeesbuch (1777)”).
• History of the Austrian education system. From the beginning to the present. 6 volumes. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1982–1995.
• Relic or future model? On the history of the Catholic private schools in Austria. öbv and hpt, Vienna 2000.
• Ways to enforce or prevent (or what is believed to be) educational progress. Results of an analysis of the Austrian educational policy of the last centuries (= retrospectives in matters of education. R. 2, no. 52). Department of Historical and Systematic Education at the University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt 2004.
• Camp schools. School under the influence of war and displacement. Education emergency due to war events, war requirements and war consequences in Austria. öbv and hpt, Vienna 2004.
• Endless strife through the centuries - standardization or differentiation in the organization of Austrian schools. new academic press, Vienna 2014.

literature

• Wolfgang Brezinka : Helmut Engelbrecht. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanac 2013/2014, 163/164. Volume, Vienna 2015, pp. 557–565.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Engelbrecht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Helmut Engelbrecht in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Helmut Engelbrecht in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ), accessed on September 18, 2014.
2. ↑ Master of the History of Education , Wiener Zeitung , December 1, 2004, accessed on September 18, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Engelbrecht, 2008 ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , accessed on September 18, 2014.  
4. ↑ Honorary Doctor Helmut Engelbrecht , website of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt , September 2, 2012, accessed on September 18, 2014.
5. ↑ Science Prizes 2005 , Danube University Krems website, October 28, 2005, accessed on September 18, 2014.
6. ^ Honorary member of the Wissenschaftsakademie , NÖN.at , April 30, 2014, accessed on September 18, 2014.