Jan-Daniel Georgens

Jan-Daniel Georgens (born June 12, 1823 in Leistadt , now Bad Dürkheim , † November 9, 1886 in Bad Doberan ) was a German educator .

Life

From 1841 to 1843 Georgens attended the teachers' college in Kaiserslautern. Influenced by the works of Pestalozzi , Rousseau and Froebel , with whom he was in correspondence, his further training path is controversial. An academic education - claimed by himself - cannot be proven; the doctorate under which he published is probably "self-acquired". However, he and his wife were accepted as honorary members of the Leopoldina in 1857 .

After various educational positions, Georgens took over a school for "higher daughters" in Worms in 1848 . He later worked as an educator and private tutor in the service of a noble family in Vienna and in 1856, together with his later wife Jeanne Marie Gayette , founded a school for children with learning difficulties in Baden near Vienna , later in Liesing , the Levana medical care and educational institution . He ran this school until 1866.

From 1868 Jan-Daniel Georgens lived in Berlin and published numerous writings on curative and special education and on early child care and education . The list of his publications contains no less than 161 entries. The play and learning aids published also include the later Anker stone construction kit developed by Gustav Lilienthal .

Fonts

• Dr. Georgens and H. Deinhardt: The curative education with special consideration of the idiocy and the idiot institutions. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1861 and 1863
• Georgens, JD and JM v. Gayette-Georgens: The schools of female handicraft. Models for modern use , Leipzig 1877
• Georgens, Jan-Daniel: Georgens' mother and kindergarten book. , Leipzig 1879, in the archive of the Otto Lilienthal Museum

literature

• Frank Selbmann: Jan Daniel Georgens. Life and work. , Dissertation at Justus Liebig University Giessen, 1982, ISBN 3-922346-08-1
• Robert Rißmann: German pedagogues of the 19th century , Leipzig 1910, pp. 162–171

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan-Daniel Georgens in the catalog of the German National Library
• biography
• The curative education: Twelve lectures to introduce and justify a curative educational total science volume 001: with special consideration of idiocy and the idiot institutions , e-book of the University Library Vienna ( eBooks on demand )
• Curative Education: Twelve lectures on idiocy and idiot education in their relationship to the other branches of curative education and health education - Volume 002: with special consideration of idiocy and idiot institutions , e-book of the University Library Vienna ( eBooks on Demand )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Selbmann, p. 19
2. ↑ Robert Rißmann, who knew Georgens personally, writes: "" Incidentally, it would be a futile effort to bring light into the darkness that lies over various parts of his very eventful life "(Rißmann p. 166)
3. ↑ Selbmann, p. 21
4. ^ Member entry by Johann Daniel Georgens at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 25, 2016.
5. ↑ Selbmann pp. 318-330
6. ↑ Lilienthal and the construction kit. Otto-Lilienthal-Museum , accessed on October 5, 2018 (on the history of the construction kit).  .