Johann Friedrich Oest

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Johann Friedrich Oest (born December 10, 1755 in Neukirchen, today the parish of Steinbergkirche ; † January 14, 1815 in Berntorfsminde on Funen ) was a German private educator, philosopher and pedagogue.

Life

Johann Friedrich Oest was the son of Pastor Nicolaus Oest . He initially received home tuition from his father and then studied theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1773 . He did not complete this degree, so that he could not succeed his father. However, he acquired a broad education and, after a short break as a private tutor, continued his studies in philosophy and philology at the University of Kiel in 1778 .

Around 1780 he was tutor to the landlord Jürgen von Ahlefeldt at Gut Damp for the next seven years . During this time he came into contact with the reform educators and philanthropists Johann Bernhard Basedow and Joachim Heinrich Campe . He became an employee of Campes General Revision of the Entire School and Education System , in which in 1787 his award-winning book on sex education How to keep children and young people safe from the vice of fornication appeared, which appeared in various forms and editions several times. A Swedish translation appeared in Lund in 1810 .

With completion of the school education in the Ahlefeldt house in 1788 he became tutor at Brahetrolleborg Castle with the liege count Johann Ludwig von Reventlow (1751-1801), the younger brother of the Danish social reformer Christian Detlev von Reventlow . In 1793 he gave up this position in order to marry Dorothea Petersen (1761–1843), the daughter of the Rendsburg city secretary Johann Petersen, in Flensburg . From then on he taught at his wife's girls' school in Glücksburg . However, his former employer, Count Reventlow, made it possible for him to go on a study trip through Germany the following year and thus won him over as first teacher for the teachers ' seminar in Brahetrolleborg, which was founded to promote the Danish elementary school system and which was connected with the management of a boys' school in Bernstorfminde. He kept this position after the death of his sponsor Reventlow until his own death. In 1803 he became titular professor and in 1813 knight of the Dannebrogord .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Friedrich Oest  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nödwänd underwisning and warning for ungdom af begge könen, rörande otukt i allmänhet och sjelfbefläckelse i synnerhet. Prisskrift författad af JF Oest. Öfwersatt af HF Sjöbeck. Lund, 1810. Tryckt uti Berlingska boktryckeriet
  2. ↑ Also Peter Villaume was Reventlow at this first Danish philanthropist committed.
personal data
SURNAME Oest, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private educator, philosopher and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen, today the parish of Steinbergkirche
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1815
Place of death Berntorfsminde on Funen