Karl Friedrich August Kühns

Karl Friedrich August Kühns around 1880

Karl Friedrich August Kühns , also Carl Friedrich August Kühns , (born November 1, 1808 in Blankenfelde near Berlin , † November 29, 1888 in Lüneburg ) was a German educator.

Life

Kühns was born during the French occupation of the Kingdom of Prussia . He attended the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium in Berlin until 1827 , then was an assistant teacher at a boys' school until 1830, before joining the Royal Seminary for City Schools under director Adolph Diesterweg on January 1, 1831 . Kühns passed the exam on May 7, 1834 with the grade "Excellent". He was recommended and accepted as a candidate at the Johanneum high school in Lüneburg . On October 15, 1834, he began his service there as the first main teacher of the real classes of the grammar school with the subjects of French, mathematics and natural sciences. In 1846 Kühns helped found the trade school (vocational school) in Lüneburg and worked there as a conductor. In 1874 he was awarded the title “Inspector of the Realschule”.

Honor

In 1884 the King of Prussia awarded him the Red Eagle Order, fourth class, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his service .

Works

• Arithmetic book. 1. Thl. for the lower classes of grammar schools a. higher civic schools and answers to it. 1. Thl. , Lüneburg 1846.
• Arithmetic book. 2. Thl. fd middle classes of higher civic schools and answers to them. 2. Thl. , Lüneburg 1847.
• Arithmetic book. 3. Thl. f. upper classes in higher civil and action schools and answers to them. 3. Thl. , Lüneburg 1848.
• From the zoological garden in London . In: Conversations at the home hearth . Third series, Volume 1, No. 17, pages 331–333, No. 18, pages 346–350 and No. 19, page 367 371, Leipzig 1861.
• The gardens in England . In: Conversations at the home hearth. Third series, volume 2, No. 19, pages 368–373 and No. 20, pages 389–393, Leipzig 1862.
• About silk construction . In: Journal of Agriculture. New episode. 7th volume, pages 185–205, Göttingen 1862.
• History of the Johanneum Realschule . In: Program of the Johanneum zu Lüneburg to celebrate the fifty years of office of the director Dr. Wilhelm Friedrich Volger on October 12, 1865 , pages 5-18.
• Arithmetic book. 1. Thl. for the lower classes of grammar schools, Real- u. higher civic schools. 3. presumably u. verb. u. redesigned taking into account the new dimensions. Edition and answers to it , Lüneburg 1870.
• Molière . In: Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg . Easter 1877, pages 3–18, 18 and 23.
• Historical outline of the business school in Lüneburg . Published by the conductor of the commercial school, Mr. Real-Schul-Inspector Carl Kühns, when he retired from Michaelis in 1888.

literature

• Christian Gottlob Kayser : Kühns. Carl Fr. Aug. In: New Book Lexicon , Third Part, A – K, Leipzig 1848, p. 539.
• Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg, Easter 1851, pp. 13-16.
• Ernst A. Zuchold: Kühns. Carl Friedr. Aug. In: Neues Bücher-Lexicon , Fünfter Theil, A – K, Leipzig 1853, p. 589.
• Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg, Easter 1861, p. 30.
• Gustav Wilhelm Wuttig and Richard Haupt: Kühns. Carl Frdr. Aug. In: Neues Bücher-Lexicon , Eleventh Part, 1865-1870, A - K, Leipzig 1872, p. 637.
• Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg , Easter 1870, p. 48 and 50.
• Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg , Easter 1875, pp. 44 and 45.
• Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg , Easter 1881, pp. 28 and 32.
• Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg , Easter 1884, pp. 14 and 16.
• Program of the Johanneum zu Lüneburg to celebrate the fifty years of existence of the Realschule and the fifty years of office of the senior teacher and inspector Karl Friedrich August Kühns on October 15, 1884.
• Director R. Haage: Description of the celebration of the fifty-year jubilee of the Realschule and the senior teacher and inspector K. Kühns. In: Program of the Johanneum in Lüneburg, Easter 1885 , pages 3–6.
• Wilhelm Görges and August Nebe: History of the Johanneum in Lüneburg. Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the Johanneum in September 1906. Lüneburg 1906, pp. 93 and 130.
• Emil Ahlenstiel: Report on the anniversary celebration of the Johanneum 25th to 27th September 1906. Verlag Stern, Lüneburg 1907, p. 17.
• Hildegard Thierfelder : The Kühns and Lüneburg family. In: North German family studies. Journal of the Working Group on Genealogical Associations in Lower Saxony , Volume 20, January – March 1971, Issue 1, Neustadt ad Aisch 1971, pp. 1–5.