Paul Brandt (philologist, 1861)

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Paul Eduard Karl Brandt (born March 30, 1861 in Saarbrücken , † June 4, 1932 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist, high school teacher and art historian.

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Paul Brandt was the son of Martin Gottlieb Wilhelm Brandt (1818–1894), director of the girls’s school in Saarbrücken, and his wife Mathilde, geb. Neustetel, a daughter of Regine Jolberg . Samuel Brandt was his brother. After graduating from high school in 1880, he studied Classical Philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn , where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate and passed the first state examination in 1885. He went to school and after his preparatory service in 1887/88 he became an assistant teacher in Wetzlar, 1888/89 in Mönchengladbach , where he was employed as a senior teacher in 1889. In 1892 he took part in a study trip for high school teachers from Baden to Greece and in 1894 published his travel memories as reading material for high school students.

In 1896 Brandt moved to the municipal high school in Bonn. He was a board member of the German Gymnasium Association and one of the initiators of the Braunschweig Declaration of the Gymnasium Association of 1900, which in the wake of the June 1900 Conference advocated the preservation of the Humanistic Gymnasium . On April 1, 1910, he was appointed director of the Prince Georg Reform High School , which was founded in 1906 and is now the Max Planck High School in Düsseldorf .

In the First World War Brandt served as an officer, most recently as Major of Landwehr . After his return he became director of the Burggymnasium in Essen . He retired on April 1, 1921.

Brandt was known for incorporating art contemplation into his classes. In 1910 he published his main work Seeing and Recognizing: A Guide to Comparative Art Viewing. Following the principles of Heinrich Wölfflin , he wanted to avoid chronological order by comparing them with one another according to certain points of view and instructing the reader to see what the artist wanted to say. The image and text of each chapter always filled two opposite pages that could be overlooked at a glance. The book, well suitable as a gift for its quality equipment, reaching even to Brandt's lifetime 7 runs with over 50,000 copies sold and was part of the library of the educated middle class . In 1938 the 8th edition appeared, which had been edited in the spirit of National Socialism and for which instead of Vincent van Gogh's Rhonebarken , the Bamberg rider now adorned the frontispiece . The last, 13th edition, appeared in 1968.

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  1. ↑ Eduard Jacobs:  Brandt, Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 179-182.
  2. ↑ See also: Dorothea Ipsen: The land of the Greeks with the soul searching. The perception of antiquity in German travel reports about Greece at the turn of the 20th century (= Osnabrück research on antiquity and the reception of antiquity. Vol. 2). Rasch, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-932147-93-6 , p. 70 ff.
  3. ↑ Festschrift  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Max-Planck-Gymnasium, accessed on July 26, 2011 (PDF).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.alt.max-planck.com  
  4. ↑ After an advertisement for the book in Anton Genewein: From Romanesque to Empire. Shepherd, Leipzig 1911.
  5. ↑ After Wolfgang Ulrich: The Bamberg rider and Uta von Naumburg. In: German places of remembrance . Volume 1, Beck, Munich 2009, p. 694, note 6.
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SURNAME Brandt, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandt, Paul Eduard Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, high school teacher and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1932
Place of death Bonn