Joseph Goettler

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Joseph Göttler (born March 9, 1874 in Augustenfeld , † October 14, 1935 in Munich ) was a German Catholic theologian and educationalist . He is considered one of the most important Catholic educators of the 20th century.

Live and act

Göttler came as the second eldest son of the farmer's husband and wife Johann and Maria Göttler, geb. Widmann, to the world. A free place in the Konvikt and in the Latin school of Scheyern relieved the parents of the concern for an appropriate school education for the gifted boy. He attended high school in Freising. He then studied philosophy and theology in Freising and Munich and was ordained a priest in June 1898 in Freising Cathedral. After doctorate in 1902 and habilitation in 1904, he was professor of dogmatics at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising from 1909 and professor for education and catechetics at the University of Munich from 1911 . In catechetics , Göttler developed the so-called Munich method , which included a new definition of the epistemological location of catechetics:

So far, catechetics, although ... has been of pedagogical interest for a long time, has always understood itself as belonging to theology, more precisely to pastoral theology. Göttler, on the other hand, after initial wavering in his view, came to the point of view that where catechetics expanded into religious education, it was no longer a theological, but an educational discipline under the guidance of a Christian educational science .

The theologian was also involved in the Bavarian State Association of Catholic Day Care Centers and Schools for Children , on whose committee he was elected in 1917. As a result, he had also dealt with the Catholic public education of young children as a journalist. Göttler was not exactly positive about the founder of the kindergarten, Friedrich Froebel, and his play system and employment system. He was of the opinion that the very urgent, strictly ordered sequence of gifts and preoccupation with the individual gifts, but something bound and therefore forced [and] despite all the removal of the actual school subjects, something school-like, not to say schoolmaster-like .

From 1909 to 1930 the theologian was editor of the Catechetical Papers . He was also the editor of the yearbook of the Association for Christian Educational Science from 1919 to 1929 , and from 1926 was a member of the editorial team of the highly respected Catholic monthly magazine Pharus . Göttler died on October 14, 1935. He was the victim of a serious traffic accident.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The effect of the sacrament of penance according to the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1903 (dissertation)
  • St. Thomas von Aquin and the pre-tridentine Thomists on the effects of the sacrament of penance, Freiburg 1904 (habilitation thesis)
  • A unified religion curriculum. Considerations and proposals for the uniform organization of religious education for the Catholic youth, Munich 1908.
  • The educational-catechetical seminar, Munich 1911
  • An outline of the educational system, Kempten 1912
  • Our educational goal. Pedagogical-teleological considerations for enlightenment, understanding and collection, Munich 1909
  • On the spirit of early childhood institutions in the past and present, in: Pharus 9 1918, pp. 531–549
  • History of pedagogy in guiding principles for lectures. With special consideration of Bavarian school history, Munich 1921
  • Religious and moral education. Outline of a contemporary catechetics, Münster 1923

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Grell 1991, p. 219
  2. ↑ Grell 1991, p. 231 f
  3. ↑ Göttler 1918, p. 542

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personal data
SURNAME Gottler, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottler, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1935
Place of death Munich