Karl Klaunig
Karl August Klaunig (born June 28, 1824 in Wellerswalde near Oschatz , † February 21, 1861 in Leipzig ) was a German educator. He was a senior teacher at the municipal secondary school in Leipzig and is important for the development of official regulations for German spelling .
Life
Karl Klaunig came from a teacher's household. At the age of 15 he entered the Royal School Teachers' Seminar in Grimma in 1839 . He then studied pedagogy and theology despite poor financial conditions. At the age of 25 he received the theological candidacy and a provisional teaching position at the Leipzig school for the poor . At the age of 27 he passed the examination for the higher education authority and at 28 got a job at the first citizen school in Leipzig. At the age of 30 he got the position of a full teacher of German language, history and geography at the municipal secondary school in Leipzig, which he held until his death at the age of 36.
Act
In Leipzig in 1854, at the suggestion of the director of the secondary school Johann Karl Christoph Vogel, a commission was formed from the teachers' colleges of the secondary school and the first and second citizen schools, which should submit proposals for an agreement in German spelling. After these proposals were presented in 1856, Dr. Karl Klaunig was entrusted with the preparatory work for a further examination of the proposals.
During the elaboration, Klaunig came to the following principle:
"In all those cases in which a certain spelling has established itself in the course of the last century or the preceding centuries, the school has to retain the same, regardless of whether the new historical research calls it right or wrong; however, in all fluctuating cases set a notation according to the historically perceptible development of the New High German sound system. "
With this principle Klaunig worked out a draft and, after minor changes, received the approval of the commission and a conference of the teaching staff of the Leipzig Realschule and the first and second citizens' school. Immediately afterwards, in 1857, he published the work under the title About German Orthography from the Scientific Practical Viewpoint . In order to be able to implement the standardized spelling shown as quickly as possible and without great difficulty, an excerpt from this work was printed out for the students at the same time, which was entitled Rules and Vocabulary for German Spelling . This little rulebook had 12 pages of rules and 29 pages of dictionary.
The little book was a great success. The Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung called for the work to be used as a basis for discussions of a German standard spelling in schools and for appropriate reports to be sent. The numerous reports that were sent in resulted in some minor changes. In 1865, four years after Klaunig's death, they were incorporated into the second edition of the rule book. A second edition of the main work was published in 1867, edited by Dr. Moritz Berndt.
With the rules and vocabulary for pupils, Klaunig has not only mastered school orthography in schools in Saxony and other German states for more than two decades, but has also spread the pattern after 1861 in Württemberg, 1879 in Bavaria, 1880 in Prussia and Saxony and in Baden in 1881 official rulebooks for German spelling were first published for use in schools.
Works
- About German orthography from the scientifically practical standpoint. Leipzig 1857. Second edition 1867.
- Rules and vocabulary for German spelling for use by the pupils of the general and urban secondary school in Leipzig. Leipzig 1857. Second edition 1865.
- Ernst the Pious: Duke of Gotha. Leipzig 1857, illustrated in words and pictures by Karl Klaunig and HJ Schneider after his life and work.
literature
- Moritz Berndt: Foreword to Ueber German orthography from a scientific practical standpoint. Leipzig 1867. Second edition.
- General German teachers' newspaper. 1859, no.17 and 18. 1860, no.10.1861, no.9, 14, 19.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klaunig, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klaunig, Karl August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellerswalde near Oschatz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1861 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |