Johann Heinrich Deinhardt

Johann Heinrich Deinhardt (born July 15, 1805 in Niederzimmer , † August 16, 1867 in Bromberg ) was a German educator.

Life

Coming from a humble background, Deinhardt was sent to school in Erfurt in 1815 after attending the village school in his home town . A year and a half later he was accepted into the grammar school and enrolled at the University of Berlin in 1825 , where he devoted himself to studying pedagogy. In 1828 he took a substitute position as a teacher. He was then employed as a full teacher at the Wittenberg grammar school and later became a senior teacher who preferred to concentrate on the ancient languages. In his private life he was very close to a large circle of acquaintances, especially a friend named Ramdohr, from whom he had a lifelong fondness for the works of Matthias Claudiustook over. It was this Ramdohr who gave the occasion for Deinhardt's wedding on October 18, 1833 to the sister of another friend, Hermann Schmidt, who was a former schoolmate of Fritz Reuter in Stavenhagen . This marriage was to have three daughters.

On the one hand through his literary work, on the other hand through his educational work, Deinhardt gained the attention of the authorities, so that in 1844 he was offered a rector's position in Bromberg. He passed the rectorate examination at the University of Halle and took up the position in Bromberg. Here he worked for 23 years, expanded it eminently and created foundations for the daughters of deceased teachers as well as for widows and orphans. In addition, he led a happy family life and remained on friendly terms with his brother-in-law in Wittenberg, as evidenced by several mutual visits and the posthumous letters from the years 1846 to 1850.

Since Deinhardt was also politically active and supported the burgeoning democracy movement, he was denied further appointments to Parchim and Anklam . Nevertheless, he was able to convince the authorities, who had temporarily turned away from him, through his success as a pedagogue and thus achieved recognition of his pedagogical work. So he received in 1860 from the Faculty of Philosophy University of Berlin the honorary doctorate and the coronation of the King William I in Koenigsberg in 1861 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order of the fourth grade. He spent the last years of his life withdrawn and died before the 50th anniversary of his school.

Pedagogically he pursued the stimulation of the students' interest in the sciences, he was an opponent of corporal punishment. After having dealt with various topics in several articles and books, he proposed the establishment of a journal for scientific pedagogy in 1838. On the instructions of the Minister of Culture Friedrich Eichhorn , he drafted instructions for religious instruction.

Deinhardt was the uncle of Heinrich Marianus Deinhardt (1821-1880), to whom the concept of curative education goes back to Jan-Daniel Georgens .

Works

• About the geometrical analysis of the ancients. Wittenberg 1830
• The construction of trigonometric formulas of a known quantity as a general method of solving elementary geometry problems. Wittenberg 1834
• The grammar school lessons according to the scientific requirements of the current time. 1837 ( Online ), (This book was also translated into Dutch under the title: Het Gymnasiale Onderwiis volgens de Wetenschappiske Eischen des Tegenwoordigen tijds door Deinhardt. Uit Het Hoogduitsch met eene Voorrede en Aanteekeningen van Mr. J. Bakker Korff. Amsterdam 1858)
• The concept of the soul with regard to Aristotle. One try. Hamburg 1840, ( online )
• Contributions to religious knowledge. Hamburg and Gotha 1844, ( online )
• About the contrast between pantheism and deism in the pre-Christian religions. Bromberg 1845
• From the ideals with special regard to the fine arts and to poetry. Bromberg 1853
• The concept of education, with special reference to contemporary higher education. Bromberg 1855
• Contributions to disposition theory. Bromberg 1858
• The concept of religion. Bromberg 1859
• Mind Life and Mind Formation. Bromberg 1861
• About the reasons for the immortality of the human soul. Bromberg 1863
• Life and character of the Wandsbeck messenger Matthias Claudius. 1864 ( online )
• About the content and context of Plato's symposium. Bromberg 1865
• From the development of man to free will. Bromberg 1867. 35 p. (Progr. Bromberg Gymn.)
• Johann Heinrich Deinhardt's little writings. Leipzig 1869 ( online , edited by Hermann Schmidt)

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein :  Deinhardt, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 30-33.
• Hermann Masius: Johann Heinrich Deinhardt. A contribution to the history of the Preuszian grammar school system. In: Alfred Fleckeisen, Hermann Masius: New year books for philology and pedagogy. Verlag BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1873, Vol. 108, pp. 449-488 ( online )
• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Giessen University Library, Giessen Electronic Library, 2008, Preprint, Vol. 4, ( Online )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Masius: Johann Heinrich Deinhardt. A contribution to the history of the Preuszian grammar school system. In: Alfred Fleckeisen, Hermann Masius: New year books for philology and pedagogy. Verlag BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1873, vol. 108, p. 464 ( books.google.de )
2. ↑ Christian Stöger: The idea of ​​democracy from 1848. Studies on Heinrich Deinhardt's early life and work (1821–1851) , Bad Heilbrunn 2017, p. 95f. Limited preview: [1]