Johann Heinrich Meier

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Johann Heinrich Meier (born July 28, 1778 ; † March 2, 1860 in Lübeck ) was a German educator and founder of one of the first secondary schools in Germany.

Life

Meier completed the teachers' seminar in Hanover . In 1802 he began his activity at the city ​​daughter school in Hanover. In 1805 the city of Lübeck recruited him from there. Meier founded his private school in Lübeck on January 9, 1806, the "Education and Pension Institute for Daughters", which he himself directed until 1854. The school was located from 1813 to 1871 in Beckergrube 17, which was destroyed in 1942 , three houses next to the Theater Lübeck - 1796 No. 141, 1820 No. 146, Marien-Magdalenen Quartier Block 82. The school was the one founded two years earlier in Lübeck Ernestine School in no way and was a “well-established and well-attended institute for more educated daughters”. Lessons were given in handicrafts, languages ​​and sciences until confirmation . The school existed under the direction of his son Adolf Meier (1808-1894) until Easter 1871. In 1859 he renamed the school to “Meier's Educational Institute for Daughters from Finer Families”.

Meier was supported in founding his school by one of the co-founders of the Ernestine School, the businessman Jacob Wiljemars, and Carl Friedrich von Großheim, who resigned from his position as the first teacher at the Ernestine School in 1905.

The school's feast day was November 2nd, the birthday of Meier's wife, Elisabeth (Betty) Overbeck, the eldest daughter of Lübeck's mayor Christian Adolph Overbeck and sister of the painter Friedrich Overbeck . His brother-in-law was the Lübeck doctor Matthias Ludwig Leithoff .

Meier was in the Society for the promotion of community service for many years head of the 1807 established school teacher seminar and since its founding in 1841 and the trade school.

Letters from him to Elisabeth Overbeck and Friedrich Overbeck are kept in the city ​​library .

Objective of the educational institution

In principle, the same applied to the Meier Institute as to the Ernestine School, which was founded around the same time: “Our rich bourgeois class and some of our poorer residents have been provided for by the most excellent institutions in this regard, but the other classes in our city are deprived of all opportunities in order to offer their daughters a coherent and appropriate youth education to the circumstances in which they will one day enter. For them, a well-organized daughter's school, run by strict supervision, in which they can put their full confidence, remains an urgent need. ”“ The middle class, the wealthy craftsman, the smaller merchant, the householder with a strong family, who because of the high Costs could not have his girls trained in the existing institutes ”- were the clientele of the private school.

Meier, however, was a " king of the king " and stretched the framework of his school further. He rejected schools for the middle classes, which were only aimed at the "higher classes", as too narrow. At Meier, there were also language lessons that were not offered at the other institutes - there, the founding ideology of the schools to be an institution for the middle class led to class considerations: The Ernestinian school, for example, should not have "an elegant education in the fine social world" convey.

Teacher

  • Gottfried Herrmann (composer) , music director of Lübeck, whose daughters attended school, taught singing at the school from 1862 and composed holiday music for the birthday of Betty Meier, née. Overbeck
  • Adolf Meier , draftsman, drawing teacher since 1836 at the latest

Works

  • About the establishment of the educational institute for daughters opened on January 9th, 1806 in Lübeck at the beginning of their second decade , 1816
  • About female education through public institutions, in particular through the educational institution for daughters opened in Lübeck on January 9th, 1806 when she moved into the third decade , 1826
  • The educational institute for daughters from higher classes opened on January 9, 1806 when its founder, board member and main teacher entered the fourth decade of life , 1836

literature

  • Franz Heinrich Petri: Johann Heinrich Meier, his life and work as a schoolboy. 1860
  • Claus-Hinrich Offen: School in a Hanseatic civil society: on the social history of the lower school system in Lübeck (1800-1866). (Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck B 17) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1990 ISBN 3795004551 , zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1988
  • Sylvina Zander: Little desire to sew, otherwise a good child: upbringing girls and women in Lübeck. (Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Series B 26) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996 ISBN 9783795004644

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sylvina Zander, Little desire to sew, otherwise a good child--: Education for girls and women in Lübeck , 1996, p. 117
  2. ^ A b Claus-Hinrich Offen, School in a Hanseatic Civil Society: on the social history of the lower school system in Lübeck (1800-1866) , 1990, p. 86
  3. ^ Lübeckisches Adressbuch 1846, p. 232
  4. ↑ History of building and architecture, urban development in Lübeck - Beckergrube 1–103 (PDF; 367 kB) p. 11
  5. ↑ Brief description of the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck , 1814, p. 138
  6. ↑ Lübeck State Calendar 1843, p. 58
  7. ↑ a b Quoted from: Peter Guttkuhn, On the history of the Ernestinenschule Lübeck , text version online (September 14, 2008)
  8. ↑ Stefanie Ernst, Gender Relations and Management Positions: a figuration-sociological analysis of stereotype construction , 1999, p. 127
  9. ↑ Wilhelm Stahl, Gottfried Herrmann 1939, p. 37


personal data
SURNAME Meier, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and founder of a secondary school for girls
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1778
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1860
Place of death Lübeck