Pál Gönczy
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Pál Gönczy (Portrait of Zsigmond Pollák )
Pál Gönczy ( Gönczy Pál ; born December 26, 1817 in Hajdúszoboszló , † January 10, 1892 in Karácsond ) was a Hungarian educator and reformer of the Hungarian elementary school system .
Life
Gönczy was appointed to the Ministry of Education by József Eötvös in 1867 , where he fundamentally reformed the Hungarian primary school system. He gave u. a. Textbooks, atlases, globes, blackboards and calculation tables for teaching that were an integral part of primary school teaching for several decades.
literature
- Imre Juhász: Gönczy Pál, a reformer pedagógus. Debrecen: A Déri Múzeum baráti köre 1969. (With a German summary.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Oskar von Krücken / Imre Parlagi (ed.): The spiritual Hungary. Biographical Lexicon. Volume 1. Vienna / Leipzig [1918].
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SURNAME | Gönczy, Pál |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian educator and reformer of the Hungarian primary school system |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1817 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hajdúszoboszló |
DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1892 |
Place of death | Karácsond |