Historiometry

Historiometry is a teaching method for teaching history. The term was formed in 1959 and is derived from the well-known term historiography . The term was officially granted to the author G. Scharf on September 24, 2001. It was created on the occasion of the preparation of time overviews for history lessons with special use of horizontal or vertical lines and is used to clarify chronological processes precisely. This teaching and learning method was put into practice with the printing of the historiometric time card (DIN-A-2 leaflet) "Keyword data in coordinates for general world history / 19th century AD / points in time and time periods of important events", Remscheid 1959 A year earlier, the overview “... General World History / From the Old Stone Age to the Present” (millennia) including “From the Young Stone Age to the Present” (centuries) was created as a historiographical time map.

Supplements for school lessons

To enliven these linearized tables based on the Ploetz model, three colored leaflets were printed as Sparkasse advertising material, each of which had six lines depicting historical epochs. This type of overall view expanded in the form of a history room with a movable history frieze made of twelve square meter chipboard, which could be fitted with documentation on both sides. The trade journal NEUE DEUTSCHE SCHULE described the project “Holistic history lessons in an exact historical time review” in 1961 as a special edition.

Supplements for adult education

For activities outside of the daily school service in teacher training, adult education centers, universities and for private lectures, more manageable explanations of the abstract time cards were useful. Thanks to the copying technique, collages have now developed from simple beginnings into thematically limited time panoramas.

Applications

The realization of this methodical concern was triggered in 1955 in Wuppertal as part of the first teacher examination for the purpose of reconsidering the Schiller lecture What does it mean and at what end does one study universal history? , Jena 1789.

Registration of the Historio-Metrie as a trademark

Historio-Metrie is a trademark registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office.