Moritz Rothert

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Johann Moritz Heinrich Rothert (born December 21, 1802 in Friedrichsdorf ; † May 31, 1886 in Hanover ) was a German classical philologist , teacher and headmaster .

Life

Moritz Rothert was born the son of a preacher and graduated from the Latina in Halle in 1821 . He then studied theology in Halle and later moved to Tübingen , where he completed his studies in 1824. During his studies in 1821 he became a member of the Old Halleschen Burschenschaft Palatina ; he joined the fraternity reading club and the Quellengesellschaft and in 1823 the old Tübingen fraternity Germania . In 1822 he was a deputy for the Hallesche Burschenschaft at the Boys' Day in Bensheim and Zwingenberg on Bergstrasse in the Odenwald. Due to his fraternity activities, an investigation was initiated against him at the instigation of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, as a result of which he was sentenced in 1824 to three months' arrest , which he served in the fortress of Minden until the end of March 1825 .

In 1825 he taught as a teacher at the Herford grammar school, in 1829 he was appointed senior teacher at the Minden grammar school. In 1832 he moved to the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen, where he was first rector and from 1834 director. In 1845 he was appointed director of the Aurich grammar school. In 1863 he retired for health reasons and moved to Hanover.

Rothert was a pioneer of the “Gesamtgymnasium” or “Einheitsgymnasium” as a teaching institution combined from the traditional grammar school and the community school. In addition, he advocated “German as a central subject in high schools”. German should not just be one subject alongside the others, but should enjoy an express value as “the whole”, that is, as a medium for conveying the contents of all other subjects.

His son was the theologian Wilhelm Rothert .

Fonts

  • Plan and sample of a methodical Latin elementary book for the lower classes. Wenderoth, Herford 1827.
  • About the school system of the city of Minden, specifically about the possible restructuring of the grammar school in favor of non-studying students ( annual report of the grammar school Minden 1831-1832 ). Minden 1831.
  • Correlation of the Greek and Latin languages, compiled and partially explained. Lingen 1834.
  • Proposals regarding benefit and pre-school next to the grammar school in Lingen, thoughts on improving the pre-school and teaching of non-studying grammar school students 1838 (manuscript in the StA Osnabrück, Rep. 729, Akz. 39/97, No. 298)
  • About the successive instruction in the languages ​​to be taught in grammar schools. In: Pedagogical Revue 2, 1841, pp. 209 ff.
  • To school reform. Prätorius & Seyde, Aurich 1848.
  • To the electors of East Frisia. In: Ostfriesische Zeitung of April 28, 1848, Beil. No. 58.
  • The German high school. In: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 6, 1849, p. 233 ff.
  • Latin in the German grammar school, a vital question in the higher education system. Westermann, Braunschweig 1850.
  • Little Livy. Westermann, Braunschweig 1851 (further editions ibid. 1852, 1855, 1866, 1869).
  • Little Apollodorus. Brunswick 1857.
  • Virgil and Horace as Patriots: Poetry and Truth. HWH Tapper, Aurich 1861.
  • About the expansion of the Aurich grammar school with a pre-school and parallel classes for non-students (manuscript StAA, Rep. 171, No. 7).

literature

  • Bas van Bommel: Classical Humanism and the Challenge of Modernity. Debates on Classical Education in 19th-Century Germany. De Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-036543-6 , p. 637.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 123-124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 123.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 123-124.
  3. ↑ a b c Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 124.
  4. ^ Bas van Bommel: Classical Humanism and the Challenge of Modernity; Debates on Classical Education in 19th-Century Germany. De Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-036543-6 , p. 637.
  5. ↑ Georg Jäger : The social role of language and literature lessons in secondary schools in Vormärz. P. 121 f. In: Alberto Martino (ed.): Literature in the social movement; Articles and research reports on the 19th century. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-484-10289-6 .
  6. ↑ Ingrid Gogolin : The monolingual habitus of the multilingual school (=  international university publications . Volume 101 ). 2nd, unchanged edition. Waxmann, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-2098-4 , pp. 47 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Rothert, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothert, Johann Heinrich Moritz; Rothert, Johannes Heinrich Moritz; Rothert, Moriz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, teacher and headmaster
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1886
Place of death Hanover