Johann Stuve

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Johann Stuve (born August 10, 1752 in Lippstadt , † July 12, 1793 in Braunschweig ) was a theologian and leading school reformer and writer of the philanthropic education movement .

Life

Johann Stuve attended high school in his hometown, then studied primarily theology and education at the University of Halle . He became close friends with Josias Friedrich Löffler , who later became the general superintendent in Gotha, and Philipp Julius Lieberkühn . He met the latter again in Neu-Ruppin , where he accepted a position as private tutor in 1776. In the following year he became a teacher at the local Latin school through Lieberkühn's mediation . He turned down an offer to come to Prenzlau as rector . Together with Lieberkühn, he was then appointed director of the Neu-Ruppin Latin School. Stuve and Lieberkühn organized this school as the first public school based on the principles of philanthropic pedagogy .

When Lieberkühn went to Breslau for family reasons in July 1784 , Stuve was also persuaded to leave Neu-Ruppin. He was acquainted with Joachim Heinrich Campe and had become an employee of the work published by him, “General Revision of the Entire Schools and Education System ...”. Through the frank criticism that he exercised on an essay by Campes, he won his friendship to such a degree that the latter prompted his appointment as professor, full assessor of the school directorate and rector of the Katharineum in Braunschweig. On June 6, 1786 he was employed in these offices in Braunschweig. But then the planned establishment of the school directorate, in which Stuve, as a practical school man, was supposed to tour the country and inspect the schools, failed due to the contradiction of the state estates (the school directorate was dissolved in 1790) and so did the transfer of the management of the Katharineum smashed, he was without actual employment for several years until he was hired as a full professor at the Collegium Carolinum (today the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig ) in January 1789 . Here he read anthropology, geography and philosophy (logic, theory of the soul, Cicero's philosophical writings).

In the summer of 1791 his health forced him to leave Braunschweig for a year to live in Switzerland and Italy. When he returned to Braunschweig at the beginning of June 1792 after a long sea voyage, his wife was so seriously ill with consumption that she died on June 25, 1792. On July 12, 1793, Johann Stuve died of a stroke.

meaning

Stuve's main importance lies in his work as an educational writer. He paid homage to the philanthropic principles of the time, but he was not a hasty innovator; he sought a careful balance between the tried and tested old and legitimate innovations. His main endeavor was the harmonious training of the whole person, the equal care of physical, mental and moral qualities. He also gave a strong impetus to improve the girls' school system in 1786 with his treatise “On the necessity of setting up public daughter schools for all classes”. Most of his essays appeared in the "Braunschweigischer Journal ...", which he published for several years with his friends Campe and Trapp and with Heusinger . After his death, Joachim Heinrich Campe published a collection of his contributions in two parts as "Small writings of non-profit content" (Braunschweig 1794). There is also a picture of Johann Stuve here.

Works

  • Ernst Christian Trapp, Johann Stuve, Konrad Heusinger, Joachim Heinrich Campe: Braunschweigisches Journal, philosophical, philological and educational content. School bookshop, Braunschweig 1788 (3 volumes).

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personal data
SURNAME Stuve, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION philanthropic writer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1793
Place of death Braunschweig