Johanna Pelizaeus

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Johanna Pelizaeus (born April 9, 1824 in Rietberg ; † 1912 ) was a German educator , teacher and the school founder of the Pelizaeus grammar school in Paderborn .

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Her father was Benedikt Pelizaeus, who u. a. Became a lawyer and justice of the peace under the Prussian government. Her mother Friederike came from the Warburg noble family von Hiddessen .

Nothing is known about Johanna's childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. It is believed that she had a desire to become a teacher at a young age, but had to wait until her parents' death to fulfill this wish.

She finally began her training in 1854 - at the age of 30 - at the “Catholic Higher Daughter School” in Münster , now the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium . The content and organizational concept of the school, which had an attached boarding school, as well as the teachings of the Catholic pedagogue and theologian Bernhard Heinrich Overberg influenced its further development.

She got her first job as a teacher in the Ursuline boarding school on Calvarienberg in Ahrweiler near Bonn , where Overberg's teachings were also practiced.

On April 4, 1859, she applied for the establishment of a private Catholic “daughter's school” in Paderborn . The clergy supported this application because the existing St. Michael's monastery only trained the girls up to the age of 14 and there was no other Catholic institution. A Protestant secondary school for girls had recently opened. Due to this urgency, Johanna Pelizaeus was able to announce the founding of the school in the press on September 18, 1859.

In the early days, Johanna Pelizaeus did most of the teaching herself. Only the lessons in religion and mathematics were taken over by the local Catholic clergy.

Johanna Pelizaeus subsequently set up a seminar for teachers at the school and initiated preparatory courses for “aspirants in elementary and higher education”. From 1907 after the introduction of an examination regulation for "technical teachers at elementary, middle and higher girls' schools" the training a. a. at the teachers' seminar in Paderborn led by Johanna Pelizaeus.

The school she founded was under her personal sponsorship until 1908. In 1908 it was converted into a GmbH. Johanna Pelizaeus ran the school until her death in 1912.

The Pelizaeusstraße in Paderborn is still named after Johanna Pelizaeus today.

literature

  • Franz Josef Floren: School in its time - On the history of the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn 1859-1999. Paderborn 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara Stambolis: Women in Paderborn. Female action spaces and places of remembrance . SH-Verlag, 2005, p. 44.
  2. Pelizaeus Gymnasium Paderborn
  3. ^ Wilhelm Kohl / Manfred Balzer: Westphalian history . Schwann 1984, p. 591.
  4. ^ Barbara Stambolis: Women in Paderborn. Female action spaces and places of remembrance . SH-Verlag, 2005, p. 52.
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