Ludwig Gurlitt
Ludwig Gurlitt (born May 31, 1855 in Vienna ; † July 12, 1931 in Freudenstadt , Württemberg ) was a German reform pedagogue .
Live and act
Ludwig Gurlitt, a son from the third marriage of the painter Louis Gurlitt , graduated from high school in 1875. He studied Latin and Greek in Göttingen (doctorate there in 1878) and Berlin, as well as history and geography. He taught at grammar schools in Hamburg , from 1886 until early retirement in 1907 at the Steglitz grammar school and in private school service in Freudenstadt. Influenced by the British school system and shaped by the ideal of individual personality development, Gurlitt criticized the authoritarian school system of his time:
"Our upbringing, which so tyrannically watches over every step of the youth and from hour to hour prescribes the goals and tasks and the means for them, destroys the elementary natural forces, which press for their own free development, through their pedantic operation."
In his pedagogy he emphasized the artistic and physical aspects of school education and coined the term "natural education". Another aspect of Gurlitt's worldview is his German nationalism, which was shaped by Julius Langbehn (“Rembrandt als Erzieher”) and Paul de Lagarde .
Gurlitt was not the founder of the Wandervogel movement , but rather it grew out of students in his classes at the Steglitz grammar school from which the Wandervogel started. Gurlitt, however, promoted the Wandervogel movement, and after joining the Wandervogel Committee for School Trips in 1902, he took part in several Wandervogel trips. In 1903 he obtained recognition of the Wandervogel movement through an application to the Prussian Ministry of Education.
From 1905 he also took part in the "Collection of Illustrated Individual Representations", the culture of his older brother Cornelius Gurlitt .
Educational works
- The German and his Fatherland (1902)
- The German and His School (1905)
- Education for manliness (1906)
- Care and development of personality (1906)
- Intercourse with my children (1907)
- School and Contemporary Art (1907)
- The school (1907)
- School suicides (1908)
- Education (1909)
- Justice for Karl May (1919), Karl-May Verlag Radebeul
literature
- Gurlitt Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 109.
- Heinrich Kautz : Gurlitt, Georg Remi Ernst Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 330 ( digitized version ).
- Arne Kontze: The reform pedagogue Prof. Dr. Ludwig Gurlitt (1855–1931) - important school reformer or “educational anarchist”? A picture of life as a contribution to the historiography of reform pedagogy. Cuvillier, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89873-168-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Gurlitt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personnel form from Ludwig Gurlitt in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Remarks
- ↑ Scheibe, Wolfgang (1969): The Reform Pedagogical Movement 1900-1932. An introductory presentation. Weinheim, Berlin, Basel. P. 53f.
- ↑ Hans Wolf: Biographical Notes. S. 11. Supplement to: Gerhard Ziemer, Hans Wolf: Wandervogel and Freideutsche Jugend. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1961
- ↑ see the alphabetical list "Our employees" in the publication mentioned
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gurlitt, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gurlitt, Georg Remi Ernst Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German reform pedagogue |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1931 |
| Place of death | Freudenstadt |