Otto Karstädt

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Otto Karstädt (born August 7, 1876 in Wust , † August 7, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German teacher and school theorist.

Life

The son of the farmer Karl Karstädt attended elementary school in Wust, from 1891 to 1894 the preparatory institute in Genthin and from 1894 to 1897 the Protestant teachers' college in Osterburg (Altmark) . After the teacher examination he worked from 1897 to 1908 as an elementary and secondary school teacher in Magdeburg . During an illness-related stay in Recco (Liguria) near Genoa in the winter of 1900/01 he attended the first Maria Montessori schools founded in Italy . After the secondary school teacher and rector examination, he was elementary school rector in Bad Schmiedeberg (1909-13) and Nordhausen (1914-18). He also studied philosophy, pedagogy, German studies, political science and economics in Leipzig and Jena from 1909 to 1915, where he received his doctorate in 1915 and passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools.

From 1919 he worked as an unskilled worker, later as a secret government councilor and as a ministerial advisor in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Education in Berlin, and became a member of the SPD and the German League for Human Rights . After visiting professorships in England and the USA, he took over a professorship for general educational sciences / teaching sciences at the Pedagogical Academy in Hanover from 1929 . In 1932, when it was closed, it was put into temporary retirement. Back in Berlin from 1936 to 1943 he worked on Ernst Bargheer's magazine Der Deutsche Volkserzieher and the bi-monthly publication Die Volksschule .

In 1946 he received a teaching position for the methodology of German teaching at the University of Berlin in the Soviet zone of occupation. He was one of the most important reform pedagogical theorists and publicists.

Fonts

Book cover
  • Jokes are fun, funny Koltur and other flat German stories and poems . Magdeburg 1907
  • Plattdütsch Blomengarden . Berlin 1907, 3rd edition Braunschweig 1922
  • Dialect and school . Langensalza 1908, 4th edition 1925
  • Rousseau's Pedagogy , 1911,
  • Methodical currents of the present , 1919
  • Advanced school and German high school. Osterwieck / Harz: Zickfeldt 1920 (school policy and popular education 2)
  • Newer experimental schools and their questions , in: Jb. Of the Central Institute for Education and Teaching, 1923, 87-133; Experimental schools and school trials, in: Herman Nohl / Ludwig Pallat (ed.): Hb. Der Pädagogik, Vol. 4, 1928, 333–364.

literature

  • Rudolf Eckart : Handbook for the history of the Low German literature. Bremen 1911, p. 417
  • Franz Hilker: A life with school and for school. On his 90th birthday , in: Neue Deutsche Schule 18, H. 19, 1966, 328–331

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personal data
SURNAME Karstädt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Junk
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1947
Place of death Berlin