Otto Lyon

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Paul Otto Lyon (born January 10, 1853 in Spittewitz near Meißen , † July 1, 1912 in Dresden ) was a German high school teacher, Germanist, educational writer and from 1899 until his death a city ​​school councilor in Dresden.

Life

The son of a primary school teacher attended the Nossen teacher training college from 1867 to 1872 . After his second exam in 1875 he became a teacher at the orphanage in Pirna . Due to his excellent exam results, Lyon was allowed to enroll at the University of Leipzig and studied German with Rudolf Hildebrand until 1879 , as well as philosophy and art history. His teachers included u. a. Friedrich August Eckstein , Hermann Masius , Max Heinze , Wilhelm Wundt , Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch and Ludwig von Strümpell .

Lyon passed the examination for the higher teaching post and in 1879 became a senior teacher at the Realschule I. order in Leipzig, but switched to the Realschule I. order in Döbeln that same year . He received his doctorate in 1880 with a thesis on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and received a position as senior teacher at the Annenrealgymnasium in Dresden in 1884 and the title of professor in 1898. Lyon married in 1890. The marriage produced a daughter.

In 1899, Lyon succeeded Erwin Otto Prietzel (1851–1928), who had become district school inspector of Dresden, city school council in Dresden. As the city school council, he was in charge of the entire municipal school system in Dresden (including the higher schools), while the district school inspector was responsible for the state supervision of primary schools. During Lyon's tenure, the Dresden school system expanded quantitatively (through incorporations) and qualitatively.

In 1904 Lyon was awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Saxon. Albrechts Order awarded. Lyon died soon after his retirement in 1912 in Dresden and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Works

Lyon made itself particularly well known through a number of revisions to older linguistic works ( Eberhard , Synonymisches Wörterbuch, 16th ed. 1904; K. Ferd. Becker , Der deutsche Stil, 3rd ed. 1883; Heyse , Fremdwörterbuch, 18th ed. 1903 , Deutsche Grammatik, 26th edition. 1900 etc.). He founded (with his teacher Rudolf Hildebrand the magazine for German teaching (Leipzig 1887-1919). He also wrote several popular school books ( Handbuch der Deutschen Sprache in various editions, among others).

Other works by Lyon are:

  • Goethe's relationship with Klopstock (dissertation, printed Döbeln 1880)
  • Minne- und Meistersang (Leipzig 1883)
  • Lessing's Hamburg dramaturgy (1890, as editor)
  • Bismarck's speeches (1895, as editor)
  • Reading as the basis for uniform and natural teaching in the German language (3rd edition 1904, 2 parts)
  • Outline of German grammar and a short history of the German language (in the Göschen Collection, 4th edition 1905)
  • The pathos of resonance. A Philosophy of Modern Art and Modern Life (Leipzig 1900)
  • A selection of the masters of the German letter (Bielefeld 1901, as editor with Klaiber)

Pedagogical position

Because of his life story, Otto Lyon had the entire school system in view, which he understood as a unit. Like Hugo Gaudig , he emphasized the importance of the German language for teaching and thus became a forerunner of German studies , which wanted to make German teaching (in the sense of national education) the basic principle of school teaching instead of classical antiquity and Christian religious education . Lyon's appreciation of the Germanic heritage did not mean a nationalist position. Lyon is considered to be one of the major reformers of German teaching at the turn of the 20th century.

proof

  • Herbert Kolb:  Lyon, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 590 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 905.
  • Ehrhard, Anne-Françoise: The grammar of Johann Christian Heyse. Continuity and change in the relationship between general grammar and school grammar (1814-1914) , Berlin 1998, pp. 69–78. ISBN 9783110146240

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3 and 4, 1912, p. 234.
personal data
SURNAME Lyon, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyon, Paul Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Spittewitz
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1912
Place of death Dresden