Ludwig Fronhofer

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Ludwig Fronhofer (born August 24, 1746 in Ingolstadt ; † November 9, 1800 in Munich ) was a German educator and writer during the Enlightenment . He is considered a co-founder of the Realschule .

Life

After completing his grammar school studies in 1763 at the Jesuit high school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) and studying at the University of Ingolstadt, Fronhofer worked as a teacher, but also tried his hand at poetry. Under the reform-loving Elector Maximilian III. Joseph and Johann Adam von Ickstatt were entrusted with the creation of a new type of school based on the Prussian model, today's Realschule. Fronhofer also reorganized teacher training. From 1775–1789 he was a professor at the newly built Realschule in Munich, in 1779 he was appointed electoral court secretary, in 1781 rector of the German schools at the state school council and in 1783 became a real electoral school council.

Like Ickstatt, Fronhofer was a staunch supporter of the Enlightenment and as such joined the Illuminati founded in his hometown under the religious name Raimundus Lullus . Under the reactionary Elector Karl Theodor , the order was banned, Fronhofer was unable to advance his reform projects. He was a Freemason as a member of the Munich lodges for the care and the Theodor for good advice .

In 1799, shortly after Max IV Joseph's accession to the throne , Maximilian von Montgelas invited him to the “Spiritual Council”, a body that, contrary to his name, actually served to prepare for secularization . Fronhofer was appointed electoral court secretary and accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , but died at the beginning of the Montgelas reforms, the foundations of which in the school sector were laid by him, among others.

Works

  • Ludwig Fronhofer's first attempt in poetry. With a preface by the churfürstl. ecclesiastical advice and Canonici Braun. Munich (JN Fritz) 1770
  • Oden on the occasion of the highest and most gratifying accession of His electoral Highness to Palatinate Bavarians etc. etc. Mr., Mr. Maximilian Josephs, our new gracious country father and the arrival of the most brilliant wife, Mrs., Mrs. Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine, bored Margravine of Baden etc. etc., our most gracious country mother. Sung by LF Munich (J. Zängl) 1799
  • Mathilde, a play in three acts, by L. Fr. Munich (Crätz) 1774
  • Germany’s fictional golden century is, if it goes on like this, as good as it is over. A speech read as the kurfl. Academy of Sciences in Munich the most enjoyable name festival Sr. now reigning kurfl.Durchlaucht zu Pfalzbaiern etc. Karl Theodors feyerte, by Ludwig Fronhofer, professor, councilor secretary and the kurfl. Academy member. Munich (Vötter) 1779
  • The causes of the decline in the reputation of school teachers in Bavaria, shown by Ludwig Fronhofer, kurfstl. Court councilor and debt deputation secretary, when the local trivial schoolchildren were presented with prizes publicly on September 16, 1780 at the council house in the presence of the elector's graciously established clerical council debt deputation and the deputies of the city council. Munich (Vötter) 1780
  • The best way to morally educate school youth is being investigated by Ludwig Fronhofer, the real electoral councilor and rector of the German school system, than in the presence of the churfürstl. the highest school trustee, the prince-electoral council, the school directorate and the deputies of the city magistrate, the local trivial schoolchildren were presented with prizes publicly in the town hall on the 14th autumn of 1782. Munich (Thuille) 1782
  • Must the school man be a scholar? a question developed by Ludwig Fronhofer, churfürstl. really Schulrath, and the German school system rector, as in the presence of the Elector's highest secret. School trustees, the electoral clerical council, school board of directors and the deputies of the city magistrate, the schools of the electoral higher bourgeoisie. and Latin preparatory classes, then also the trivial schoolchildren of the local capital and residence city were presented with prizes publicly in the town hall on the 16th autumn month of 1784. Munich 1784
  • About studying copper engraving, by Ludwig Fronhofer. Munich 1781

literature

  • Baader, KA: The learned Baiern or lexicon of all writers who produced or nourished Bavaria in the 18th century, Vol. 1, AK, Nuremberg and Sulzbach 1804
  • Muggenthaler, L .: Ludwig Fronhofer, a Bavarian schoolboy and academic of the eighteenth century. in: Yearbook for Munich History, ed. v. K. v. Reinhardstöttner and K. Trautmann, 2nd year, Munich 1888, p. 363 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich, 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 94
  2. ^ Lorenz Maier : Fronhofer, Ludwig. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 228 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Hermann Schüttler, Hermann: The members of the Illuminati Order 1776 - 1787/93, Munich 1991, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Eberhard Weis: Montgelas - Eine Biographie (1759–1838), Munich 2005, special edition of the two-volume work: Volume 1 (1759–1799) and Volume 2 (1799–1838), page 167.
personal data
SURNAME Fronhofer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1800
Place of death Munich