List of eminent educators
This list of important educators is for reference purposes: it should make all life and work descriptions of educators accessible in Wikipedia.
The list is arranged alphabetically (by surname) and gives names, dates of life, main places of work as well as brief keywords on school affiliation and permanent achievement . In order to avoid creating a list of personalities who are important, but who cannot be found out about in Wikipedia, it is strongly recommended that you create your own article on the person concerned before entering it into the list.
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A.
- Hans Aebli (1923–1990), school didactics based on cognitive psychology
- Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), Australia, England: "Alexander Technique"
- Karel Slavoj Amerling , pseudonym Strnad Klatovský (1807–1884), Czech educator
- Ann Andreasen (* 1960), Faroese, director of the children's home in Uummannaq in Greenland
- August Friedrich Moritz Anton , (1798–1868) German educator and headmaster
- Oskar Anweiler , (* 1925), Ruhr University Bochum, comparative education
- David Paul Ausubel (1918–2008), cognitive psychology
B.
- Adolf Gideon Bartholdi (1688–1768)
- Dietrich Benner (* 1941), Humboldt University of Berlin , General Pedagogy
- Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790)
- Oskar Benda (1886–1954), Vienna State School Inspector, critic of the Nazi education system
- Fritz Graf von Bothmer (1883–1941), founder of Bothmer gymnastics
- Winfried Böhm (* 1937), representative of a "personalistic" pedagogy
- Hans Bohnenkamp (1893–1977), director of the University of Education in Celle
- Johannes Bosco (1815–1888), Italian pastor and founder of the order, representative of preventive education
- Ekkehard von Braunmühl (* 1940), founder of anti-education
- Wolfgang Brezinka (1928–2020), advocate of empirical-analytical educational science
- Jerome Bruner (1915–2016), Harvard, New York: constructivist learning theory, spiral curriculum
- Bernhard Bueb (* 1938), head of the Schloss Salem School for many years
- Christoph Andreas Büttner (1708–1774)
C.
- Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818)
- Ruth Cohn (1912–2010) Berlin, New York, Hasliberg: Topic-centered interaction
- Johann Amos Comenius (1592–1670) Prague, Amsterdam
- Giuseppe Catalfamo (1921–1989) advocate of historical personalism
D.
- Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Delbrück (1768–1830) Prussia
- John Dewey (1859–1952) USA: pragmatism, project teaching, first laboratory school
- Adolph Diesterweg (1790–1866) Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1824-1893): Herbartianer
- Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (1802-1896): Herbartianer
- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911): created humanities education
- Rolf Dubs (* 1935) Switzerland: Moderate constructivism
E.
- Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) Berlin, Breslau: Memory research ( learning psychology )
- Philipp Eggers (1929–2016) Bonn: Educator
- Johann Jakob Ewich (1788–1863) Barmen : Pedagogue
F.
- Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826) Weimar: Youth social work , a forerunner of social education
- Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (1859–1909) Barcelona: rationalist and libertarian education, Escuela Moderna
- Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911) Dresden, Chemnitz, Leipzig: Methodology
- Wilhelm Flitner (1889–1990) Hamburg: humanities education , upper level reform
- August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) Halle: Francke Foundations as a school town
- Célestin Freinet (1896–1966) France
- Paulo Freire (1921–1997) Sao Paulo and Geneva ( World Council of Churches ): Liberation Education , Education of the Oppressed , Education of Hope
- Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) Thuringia: founder of the kindergarten and play materials
- Wassilios Fthenakis (* 1937 in Kilkis) German educator, anthropologist, geneticist and psychologist of Greek descent
- Adolf Friedrich Furchau (1752–1819), rector of the grammar school in Stralsund , teacher Ernst Moritz Arndts
- Carl-Ludwig Furck (1923–2011) 1. Head of the Pedagogical Center , Berlin
- Paula Fürst (1894–1942), representative of Montessori education , Berlin
- Karl Moritz Fleischer (1809–1876) liberal education : learning instead of drumming
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- Robert M. Gagné (1916–2002) USA: Instructional Design
- Fritz Gansberg (1871–1950), Bremen reform teacher
- Hugo Gaudig (1860–1923) Reformed Education , "free intellectual activity"
- Paul Geheeb (1870–1961) Reformed Education Odenwald School
- Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761), school reformer of the 18th century
- Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), Berlin, "Die Arbeit" on body perception and expression
- Christian Heinrich Groskurd (1747–1806), rector at the Stralsund grammar school
- NFS Grundtvig (1783–1872) Denmark: Founder of the Grundtvig schools (free adult education centers ).
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths (1759–1839), Turner.
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- Johann Friedrich Hähn (1710–1789), Rector of the Berge Monastery and the Ulricianum Gymnasium in Aurich
- Kurt Hahn (1886–1974), Schloss Salem School , experiential education
- Wilhelm Harnisch , (1787–1864) Weißenfels teachers' seminar
- Gustav Hartenstein (1808–1890): Herbartianer
- Johann Julius Hecker (1707–1768): founder of the practice-oriented secondary school
- Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) Königsberg, Göttingen: founder of scientific education ( Herbartianism )
- Wilhelm Heitmeyer (* 1945): Violence and Socialization, Theory of Disintegration, Head of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence
- Hartmut von Hentig (* 1925) Bielefeld: Laboratory School , Upper School College Bielefeld
- Heinz-Joachim Heydorn (1916–1974), Critical Educational Theory and Educational Science
- Edwin Hoernle (1883–1952), Marxist pedagogue, KPD education expert
- John Caldwell Holt , (1923–1985) deschooling , unschooling
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) Berlin: educational reformer, educational theory
- Erich Hylla (1887–1976) Halle, Frankfurt: educational diagnostics and research on talent
I.
- Ivan Illich (1926–2002) USA: Deschooling
- Jean Itard (1774–1838): French doctor and teacher of the deaf and dumb
J
- Jürg Jegge (* 1943), Switzerland ( stupidity can be learned )
- Jesper Juul (1948–2019), representative of family therapy ( The competent child )
K
- Georg Kerschensteiner (1854–1932), Bavaria: vocational training , science lessons
- Ellen Key (1849–1926), Swedish writer, women's rights activist and reform pedagogue
- William Heard Kilpatrick (1871–1965), USA: Project teaching
- Wolfgang Klafki (1927–2016), Marburg: critical-constructive educational theory (categorical education)
- Heinz Klippert (* 1948), Landau (Pfalz): Methodology
- Janusz Korczak (1878–1942), Warsaw: Pedagogy of respect, attention and observation
L.
- Volker Ladenthin (* 1953) Bonn: educational scientist
- Homer Lane (1875–1925) Little Commonwealth educator and social reformer
- Wilhelm August Lay (1862–1926) teacher of experimental pedagogy
- Dieter Lenzen (* 1947) Berlin: Philosophy of Education
- Alfred Lichtwark (1852–1914) reform pedagogy , art education school
- Hermann Lietz (1868–1919) Free School Community of Wickersdorf
- Walther Lietzmann (1880–1959) Göttingen: Mathematics didactic
- Theodor Litt (1880–1962) Leipzig, Bonn: humanities pedagogy
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Otto Lüthje (1902–1977) Hamburg: full-time high school teacher and actor
M.
- John MacBeath (* 1940): Cambridge University Chair of Educational Leadership, Faculty of Education
- Karl Mager (1810–1858) Germany and Switzerland: citizen school pedagogue , campaigner for a state-free school, founder of the concept of social pedagogy
- Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko (1888–1939) Soviet Union: educational colony
- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871–1944) Japan, founder of “Value-Creating Education”, founder of Soka Kyoiku Gakkai (Value-Creating Education Society), today Soka Gakkai International (SGI).
- Jean-Pol Martin (* 1943), University of Eichstätt , French didactic, founder of the method of learning through teaching (LdL)
- Richard Meister (1895–1964) Austrian philologist and educator
- Ernst Meyer (1920–2007) group lessons and group pedagogy
- Hilbert Meyer (* 1941) Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , action-oriented teaching
- Käte Meyer-Drawe (* 1949), Ruhr University Bochum , phenomenological educational science
- Alice Miller (1923-2010) Swiss citizen. Author and psychoanalyst, elaboration of the "Black Pedagogy"
- Klaus Mollenhauer (1928–1998) Germany: Critical Education , Social Pedagogy
- Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italy, India, Netherlands: Montessori pedagogy Reform pedagogy
- Jakob Muth (1927–1993) Germany: Integrationspädagogik Deutscher Bildungsrat
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- Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883–1973) Scotland: Reform Education ( Summerhill )
- Herman Nohl (1879–1960) Germany
O
- Hans-Uwe Otto (* 1940), Bielefeld: Sociological Educational Sciences
P
- Elizabeth P. Peabody (1804-1894), USA
- Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) Russia: Behavioral Research
- Friedrich Paulsen (1846–1908), Germany, Kant researcher
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827) Switzerland, social pedagogy
- Peter Petersen (1884–1952) Jena: Reform Education ( Jena Plan )
- Alfred Petzelt (1886–1967)
- Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Geneva: Educational Psychology
- Georg Picht (1913–1982), Germany: coined the term educational catastrophe , founder and headmaster of the Birklehof boarding school .
- Emmi Pikler (1902–1984), Hungary, infant education .
- Plato (427–347 BC) pupil of Socrates
- Willy Potthoff (1925–2006), Bielefeld, Freiburg i.Br .: Reform pedagogue (integrated reform pedagogy)
- Christoph Pyl (1678–1739), rector in Anklam , Stettin and Stralsund
R.
- Adolf Reichwein (1898–1944), Jena, Halle, Tiefensee , Berlin: Reform pedagogy , school film , work school
- Wilhelm Rein (1847–1929) Jena: leading late-Herbartian
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) France: "discoverer of childhood"
- Heinrich Roth (1906–1983), Göttingen: “realistic turn” in German pedagogy, which until then had been influenced by the humanities and philosophy
- Jörg Ruhloff (1940–2018), Bergische Universität Wuppertal , norm problem in education
- Isabella Rüttenauer (1909–2007), Comparative Education AS Makarenko
S.
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834) Germany: Education theory
- Chaim Seeligmann (1912–2009) Israel: Kibbutz educator, historian of the kibbutz movement as an educational project
- Edouard Séguin (1812–1880) French doctor and educator, founder of education for the mentally handicapped
- Anna Siemsen (1882–1951) German educator, co-founder of the Bund Resolute School Reformer
- Alfons Simon (1897–1975) Individual psychological school reformer in Bavaria
- Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904–1990) USA: learning psychology (radical behaviorism , programmed learning)
- Oskar Spiel (1892–1961) Individual psychological school reformer in Vienna
- Socrates (469–399 BC) Maeutics
- Eduard Spranger (1882–1963) Leipzig, Berlin, Tübingen: humanities education
- Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Weimar, ...: anthroposophy , reform pedagogy
- Heinrich Stephani (1761–1850) Bavaria: Elementary school methodology
- Wilhelm Stern (1792–1873) Baden: elementary school system
- Karl Volkmar Stoy (1815–1885) Jena: leading Herbartian , educational seminar with practice school
T
- Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (* 1944), Humboldt University of Berlin , historical educational research
- Hans Thiersch (* 1935), Tübingen, educational scientist and social pedagogue: lifeworld-oriented social work
- Ernst Christian Trapp (1745–1818), philanthropist
- Johannes Trüper (1855–1921), social pedagogue, curative pedagogue
U
- Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Uschinski (1824–1871), founder of scientific education in Russia
V
- Franz Michael Vierthaler (1758–1827) Austria
- Wilhelm Viëtor (1850–1918) German philologist, modern language reformer
- Peter Villaume (1746–1825) German theologian, educator
W.
- Martin Wagenschein (1896–1988) Hessen: Didactics of the natural sciences
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (1803–1879), teacher and proverb collector
- Mauricio Wild (1937–2020) non-directive support for children and young people
- Rebeca Wild (1939–2015) non-directive support for children and young people
- Christian Heinrich Wolke (1741–1825), teacher at the Philanthropinum Dessau
- Hans Würtz (1875–1958) important cripple and physically disabled educator
- Gustav Wyneken (1875–1964) Reformed Education , Free School Community of Wickersdorf
- Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), social pedagogy
Z
- Tuiskon Ziller (1817–1882) Leipzig: leading Herbartian
- Hans Zulliger (1893–1965) Swiss psychologist and educator