Josephine Zehnder-Stadlin

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Josephine Zehnder-Stadlin , b. Stadlin (born March 19, 1806 in Zug , † June 26, 1875 in Zurich ), was a Swiss educator .

Life

Josephine Stadlin was born in 1806 as the daughter of the doctor Franz Karl Stadlin (1777–1829) into a liberal family close to education and enlightenment. She attended the women's monastery in Zug and later received training as a seamstress and seamstress.

After her father died in 1829, she provided for the livelihood of her eight younger siblings, including the future engineer Franz Karl Stadlin . She opened a sewing school, where she first taught young girls to sew and later to teach them to read and write.

From 1831 to 1834 she trained as a teacher at the daughter institute in Yverdon from Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer according to the concepts of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . Under the influence of her aunt Elise Ruepp and her friend Augustin Keller , Stadlin then went to Aarau to teach future teachers in German, French, history and geography at the daughter's institute . She took her mother to live with her and founded her own household in Aarau, where she gave private lessons to young girls.

In 1839 she founded the private teacher training institute in Olsberg , but had to give up the project after two years and moved to Zurich, where her institute quickly gained popularity and the number of students. Stadlin herself taught pedagogy, German and religion, while hiring other teachers for the other subjects. Although a Catholic herself, her school was also open to women of Protestant denomination.

In addition to her pedagogical work, she continued to educate herself. She was one of the first women to be able to attend lectures at the University of Zurich with a special permit from the education authority.

From 1845 to 1850 Stadlin published Die Erzieherin , a magazine for female education. She founded the Association of Swiss Educators and established a seminar with a model school for the education of teachers.

These activities, which were unusually emancipated for the time, led to criticism of the seminar. In addition, more and more Catholic students left the institute. These problems caused Stadlin to give up the seminary and institute in 1853. Instead, she devoted herself more to writing educational texts. Her most extensive publication was a seven-volume work on Pestalozzi, on which she worked for eleven years, the first volume of which, however, only appeared after her death.

In 1858 she married the widowed politician and doctor Hans Ulrich Zehnder .

The estate of Josephine Zehnder-Stadlin is in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library .

Works

  • 1850 The model school at the Swiss female seminar, a contribution to the establishment of a school of nature and life
  • 1853 Morning thoughts of a woman
  • 1856 Education in the light of the Sermon on the Mount
  • 1863 educational contributions
  • 1875 Pestalozzi; Idea and Power of Human Development. Thienemann, Gotha 1875

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personal data
SURNAME Zehnder-Stadlin, Josephine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stadlin, Josephine (maiden name); Zehnder, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH train
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1875
Place of death Zurich