Otto Atmanspacher

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Robert Otto Atmanspacher (born September 24, 1861 in Thum , † after 1935 ) was a German educator .

Life

Atmanspacher was born in the Saxon town of Thum in the Ore Mountains as the son of the tape manufacturer Robert Atmanspacher and his wife Emme née Krumbholz. From 1867 to 1875 he attended the public school in Thum and then until 1880 the seminar in Annaberg . He then worked for three years as a teacher in his hometown of Thum. From 1883 to 1886 he studied at the University of Leipzig . There he earned his Dr. phil. The subject of his dissertation, successfully defended in 1896, was The Foundations of Our Rule over Numbers .

After completing his studies from 1886 to 1898, he worked as a teacher at the elementary school in Leipzig , then until 1901 at the secondary school in Stollberg in the Ore Mountains. He then moved to the seminar in Schneeberg until 1906 and was then a teacher until his retirement and finally senior teacher at the teachers' seminar in Annaberg-Buchholz . He presented several school pedagogical writings that deal primarily with mathematics , number and arithmetic psychology. For example, he tried to understand numbers themselves as units and their aggregates as numbers.

For his services he was awarded the title of professor.

family

  • On September 26, 1891, he married Sidonie Hofmann, the daughter of the stocking manufacturer Thebald Hofmann from Thum.

Fonts (selection)

  • The foundations of our rule over numbers , Leipzig, Verlag der Dürr'schen Buchhandlung, 1897.
  • Arithmetic lessons in the first year of school , Leipzig, BG Teubner, 1906.
  • Number and arithmetic psychology , Annaberg in the Erzgebirge, Neupädagogischer Verlag, 1928.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book of the cities of Annaberg, Buchholz and the Upper Ore Mountains, Volume 2 , Annaberg im Erzgebirge, 1931, p. 353.
  2. ^ Walther Lietzmann : Material and method of arithmetic instruction in Germany. A literature review , 1912.
  3. ^ Walther Lietzmann: Material and method of arithmetic instruction in Germany. A literature review , 1912.
personal data
SURNAME Atmanspacher, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atmanspacher, Robert Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Thum
DATE OF DEATH after 1935