Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm
Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm , later Philip Kohnstamm, (born June 17, 1875 in Bonn , † December 31, 1951 in Ermelo ) was a Dutch physicist, philosopher and educator.
Kohnstamm was originally a physicist, but he is known as one of the leading scientific educators in the Netherlands and he held one of the first chairs for education in the Netherlands. Originally a German, he studied natural sciences in Amsterdam from 1893, became a Dutch citizen in 1899 and received his doctorate in physics in 1901 under Johannes Diderik van der Waals . He was also interested in theology and switched from the Jewish to the Christian faith in 1917. Kohnstamm taught natural philosophy and logic, then thermodynamics (1908) and finally pedagogy (first in 1932 in Utrecht, then from 1938 also in Amsterdam, where he founded a seminar for pedagogy at the university in 1919) at the University of Amsterdam.
After the Second World War he headed the pedagogy committee of the Dutch Workers' Party, which he founded with others during his imprisonment during the German occupation. He campaigned for Christian education, adult education and vocational training for girls.
He published many books on pedagogy and also an article in the Handbuch der Physik (Thermodynamics of Mixtures, 1927).
He is the father of Max Kohnstamm .
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| SURNAME | Kohnstamm, Philipp Abraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohnstamm, Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist, philosopher and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1951 |
| Place of death | Ermelo |