Joseph Anton Dollmayr
Joseph Anton Dollmayr (born May 24, 1804 in Sigmaringen , † June 1, 1840 in Solothurn ) was a German educator in Switzerland.
Life
Joseph Anton Dollmayr was the youngest child of a German shoemaker who immigrated to Switzerland from the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , married there and settled in Neu St. Johann in Toggenburg .
He attended the village school in Neu St. Johann and after graduation worked in a local weaving cellar. During this time he also took Latin language lessons with the chaplain and was later accepted into the monastery school there by the recommendation of a capitular of the Benedictine Abbey of Pfäfers .
In 1821 he was expelled from the convent school because he did not want to submit to the convent obligation; so he fled occasionally in a canal that led out of the monastery.
He then went to Solothurn in the autumn of 1821 to attend the higher education institution there. One of his teachers, Professor Anton Kaiser (1791–1849), gave him private lessons. Joseph Anton Dollmayr developed into a very good student, but he rebuked the shortcomings of the educational institution, especially philosophy, and defied the regulations; In addition, he wrote mocking poems for the professors and was considered to be the «tone setter for the restless heads among the students». This led to the fact that after four years in which he completed humanistic and philosophical courses and also worked as a private teacher, he was expelled from Solothurn in 1825.
Because he no longer aspired to a clerical position in the future, he went to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to study law there. After some time he again heard predominantly philosophical lectures from Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , Franz von Baader and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause , history from Joseph Görres and old German literature from Hans Ferdinand Maßmann . He was friends with Professors Maßmann and Krause as well as with Constantin von Höfler and Karl Philipp Fischer , whom he met in Munich. During his stay in Munich, he became court master of the only son of Count Buttler on Haimhausen.
In 1833 the government began to intervene against student associations at several universities. As a result, on April 27, 1834, Joseph Anton Dollmayr was instructed to leave Munich within 24 hours and the kingdom within three days, after which he returned to Solothurn.
In Solothurn he was offered the position of professor of philosophy and history at the higher education institution by the education council; He owed this offer to the influence of friends and to his book “Instructions for Philosophical Thinking”. The higher educational institution, which had been redesigned in 1832 by the influence of State Councilor Urs Joseph Lüthi , owed Joseph Anton Dollmayr the appointment of several teachers ( Heinrich Georg Friedrich Schröder , Otto Möllinger , Heinrich Simon Lindemann , Matthäus Weishaupt (1833–1877) and Karl Völckel ( 1819–1855)) from Germany, the expansion of the library and the physical cabinet. His modern views were heavily criticized in the educational council and in the college of professors, and he was therefore only able to push through a few suggestions for improvement. Because of these developments, as well as because of his state of health, he completely stopped his public lectures and took leave of absence from the higher education institution in 1839. The state of health was presumably based on the poor conditions under which he attended school as a child and afterwards, which led to his early death.
In Solothurn he founded a literary association which, under the editorship of his friend Alfred Hartmann, published the Morgenstern magazine for literature and criticism . However, this magazine had to be discontinued after a year due to a lack of subscribers.
Fraternity
During his studies at the University of Munich, he was accepted into the Markomannen student association .
Works
- Guide to philosophical thinking. Jaquet, Munich 1834.
Individual evidence
- ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, Weimar 1842, p. 618 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Yearbook for Solothurn History. Vol. 65, 1992, p. 8 (archived on E-Periodica of ETH Zurich ; PDF; 1.23 MB).
- ↑ Morgenstern. Table of contents ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dollmayr, Joseph Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator in Switzerland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sigmaringen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1840 |
| Place of death | Solothurn |