Humboldt Academy
The Humboldt Academy was a private Berlin institute for adult education. It was named on the basis of the educational goals of the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt and is considered to be one of the predecessors of the adult education centers .
history
Max Hirsch founded the Humboldt Academy in 1878 with the aim of “giving those people who cannot attend or have already left the university the opportunity for a harmonious academic further education through systematic lecture cycles and other suitable means, and in connection with the To keep advances in developing science ”. In the following years he headed the institute as general secretary.
The socialist laws but of 1878 banned in the establishment of the academy, most specifically geared towards the working class education opportunities for adults. Because of this, and because of the curricula aimed at the educated bourgeoisie, Hirsch's original claim to educating the masses could not be realized.
In 1915 the Humboldt Academy and the Freie Hochschule Berlin, founded in 1902, merged to form the Humboldt Academy, Volkshochschule Groß-Berlin .
Well-known professors
- Carl Kalonymos Abel (1837–1906), former philologist
- Max Hermann Baege (1875–1939), philologist, psychologist and sociologist
- Oskar Stillich (1872–1945 or earlier), economist, social scientist and political scientist
literature
- The Humboldt Academy in Berlin . In: The Gazebo . Issue 14, 1882, pp. 239 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirsch, Max . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 567.
- ↑ See Wolfgang Ayaß : Max Hirsch. Social liberal union leader and pioneer of adult education centers , Berlin 2013; Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1902-10, Volume 59
- ↑ German Adult Education Following the Unification of 1871 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Josef Olbrich, Horst Siebert: History of adult education in Germany . P. 149 f.
