Paul Vogel (pedagogue)

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Paul Johannes Vogel (1856-1911)

Paul Johannes Vogel (born April 27, 1856 in Plauen , † July 10, 1911 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher . He was the founding rector of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig .

Life

family

Paul Vogel was the youngest son of the senior high school teacher Friedrich August Vogel († April 1, 1867 in Plauen) and his wife Minna, nee Teichmann († 1878). His father died at the age of ten. The largely destitute widow then moved with her underage son from Plauen to Meißen , where at the time Paul's eldest brother, Theodor Vogel (1836–1912), was a teacher at the Princely School of St. Afra .

Paul Vogel married Johanna Meyer († April 24, 1928 in Leipzig), the daughter of a lawyer, from Altenburg on September 30, 1879 . The marriage had two children.

Career

Paul Vogel attended the grammar school in his hometown from 1864 to 1868 and the Princely School of St. Afra from 1868 to 1874. He then studied classical philology , history and German at the University of Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Pauliner , the former Leipzig University Choir. On November 1, 1877, he received his doctorate under Justus Hermann Lipsius at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig and in March of the following year he passed the state examination for candidates for the higher education authority.

From 1878 to 1888 he taught at the Royal High School in Dresden-Neustadt . Then he was a permanent scientific teacher at the Royal High School in Schneeberg . In 1894 he was awarded the title and rank of professor .

By order of the Saxon Ministry of Culture , Vogel was appointed the first senior teacher and interim head of the 2nd State High School, which came into being at Easter 1902, with effect from January 1, 1902 , and was presented to the Minister of State Dr. von Seydewitz committed as such.

After extensive organizational preparatory work, the opening of classes on April 8, 1902 and the inauguration of the new school building on October 16 of the same year, Paul Vogel became the first rector of this youngest humanistic high school , now named after Queen Carola , with effect from January 1, 1903 appointed in Leipzig. In addition to his organizational and special teaching skills, which enabled him to memorize the necessary firmly and safely and at the same time to stimulate and captivate the students , contemporaries highlighted his constant benevolence towards his colleagues and the student body as a special characteristic of his administration. Vogel was one of the first high school principals in Saxony to introduce regular parents' evenings at their school. In a very short time he succeeded in establishing the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium as one of the most renowned educational institutions in Saxony.

From Easter 1911 he was also head of the newly established educational seminar at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium.

In addition to his school service, he was active in science and journalism and held numerous honorary positions. In 1910 he was appointed a member of the jury of the Brussels World Exhibition by the Saxon State Government .

After the first signs of a serious heart disease had become noticeable as early as 1909, his health was permanently impaired by three tragic student suicides by the most gifted senior primans at the school and the associated emotional shocks of the most severe kind . Paul Vogel died of acute heart failure during a cure in Bad Kissingen. The funeral ceremony took place at the south cemetery in Leipzig with great sympathy from teachers and students . His urn was then transferred to the cemetery in Aue .

Fonts

  • In Dinarchum Curae Grammaticae Rhetoricae Criticae , dissertation, Sturm & Koppe, Lipsiae 1877.
  • Orationes ex Sallusti, Livi, Curti, Taciti libris selectae , BG Teubner, Lipsiae 1887.
  • Fritz Reuter. Ut mine Stromtid , Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1902 (German poets of the nineteenth century, 1).
  • Lysias. Selected speeches with student commentary , Freytag, Leipzig 1905.
  • German reading book for Saxon high schools , section 7: Unterprima , Dürr, Leipzig 1907.

literature

  • Arthur Sachse: Paul Johannes Vogel , in: Ralph Ruß ( edit .): Afranisches Ecce , Association of Former Princely Students , Dresden 1911, issue 16, p. 54 ff.
  • Annual reports of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig , born: Easter 1902 to Easter 1912, Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig 1903 to 1912

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Vogel: Chronik , in: Ders .: Annual report of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium (2nd state high school) in Leipzig for the school year from Easter 1902 to Easter 1903 , Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig 1903, p. 3
  2. ↑ Afranisches Ecce , p 56
  3. ↑ Peter Sprengel: History of German-language literature, 1900-1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War , CH Beck, Munich 2004, p. 3
  4. ↑ Annual report for the school year from Easter 1910 to Easter 1911, pp. 2, 5
  5. ↑ Afranisches Ecce , p 59
  6. ↑ According to information from the cemetery chancellery.
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Paul Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, school director in Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1911
Place of death Bad Kissingen