Paul Adolf Wagner

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Paul Adolf Wagner (born April 4, 1868 in Döbeln , † April 14, 1951 in Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) ) was a German teacher, geologist and geography didacticist.

Life

He was the son of the Döbelner public school teacher Gustav Adolf Wagner and his wife Pauline Emilie, née Mankel († 1874). After attending the teachers' seminar in Nossen , Paul Wagner became a primary school teacher in Leipzig-Gohlis . Here he decided in 1894 to study natural sciences and geography at the University of Leipzig , and received his doctorate in 1897. After passing the state examination, he received a position as a teacher at the 1st secondary school in Dresden-Johannstadt . From there he helped Alphons Stübel to set up the Museum for Regional Geography in Leipzig . Wagner published the first guide to this museum in 1905.

In 1911 he became a teacher at the newly founded Dresden University of Applied Sciences for girls , where he became deputy principal in 1918 and where he worked until his retirement in 1928. During this time he was a staunch advocate of a German school reform, for which, for example, in 1918 he submitted the draft curriculum for geography lessons at the higher schools in Saxony , which was then introduced in Saxony the following year. He became a member and in the 1930s head of the Dresden Geography Association .

He became known to a broad public in Saxony primarily through the publication of the Saxon hiking books , which not only dealt with Dresden and Leipzig, but also with the Ore Mountains in a popular scientific manner and appeared in several editions.

estate

The scientific legacy of Paul Wagner is now in the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Archive for Geography. A portrait of him is in the digital portrait archive.

literature

  • H. Beier: Prof. Dr. Paul Wagner for his 70th birthday party . In: Communications from the Geography Association in Dresden , New Series 1936/38, pp. 9–16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on school building cf. Marschnerstrasse 18 / Pillnitzer Strasse. In: AltesDresden.de. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Overview of the bequests in the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig.
  3. ↑ Entry in the portrait archive
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Paul Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, geologist and geography teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1951
Place of death Koenigstein