Karl August Baumeister
Karl August Baumeister (born April 24, 1830 in Hamburg , † May 22, 1922 in Munich ) was a German school teacher and writer.
Life
The son of an overseas merchant from Hildesheim attended high school in Wolfenbüttel (1840–48) and studied philology in Göttingen and Erlangen from 1848–52. During his studies he was a member of the 1848-49 Progress - fraternity Hercynia Göttingen . After graduation he made an educational trip from 1853 to 1855 to Greece, Asia Minor, Italy and France. He then worked in higher education: in 1855 at the Blochmann Institute in Dresden, in 1856 at the Collège Français in Berlin, then in Elberfeld , Lübeck, Gera and Halberstadt .
Appointed to Strasbourg as a government councilor in 1871 , Baumeister designed the higher education system in Alsace-Lorraine based on the German model, but was dismissed by the new governor, Field Marshal Edwin von Manteuffel in 1882 .
As a writer in Munich, he used the autotype, invented by Georg Meisenbach in 1881, for his huge illustration of ancient buildings, statues and everyday objects. The moderate Herbertian master builder published a pedagogical manual for higher schools, which initiated a pedagogical-didactic turn.
Fonts (selection)
- The task of the fraternity , Göttingen 1852 digitized
- Homeri Batrachomyomachia , Leipzig 1852
- Homeri Hymni , Leipzig 1860
- Cultural images from Greece's religion and art , 1865
- Ed .: Monuments of classical antiquity to explain the life of the Greeks and Romans in religion, art and custom , 3 vols. With 2400 illustrations, Oldenbourg, Munich 1884–88
- Ed .: Handbook of Education and Teaching for Higher Schools , 4 volumes, Beck, Munich 1894–98
- 1st vol. (Together with Theobald Ziegler ): History of Pedagogy , 1894 a. ö.
literature
- Josef dagger : builder, Karl August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 655 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 43–44.
- Wikisource: August Baumeister - Sources and full texts
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 176 No. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Builder, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1922 |
| Place of death | Munich |