Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann

Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann (born August 16, 1767 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † September 28, 1843 in Thorn ) was a German theologian and pedagogue . He was a student of the philosopher Immanuel Kant and one of his first biographers. As a new humanist he was one of the most important school reformers in Prussia .

Life

Jachmann attended the old town high school in Königsberg , in 1783 the Albertus University in Königsberg and graduated in 1787 with a master's degree. In 1794 he became third preacher in Marienburg , 1801 head of the Conradinum in Jenkau near Danzig , 1814 government and school councilor in Gumbinnen , 1832 provincial school councilor and privy councilor in Königsberg and Thorn .

Jachmann was Kant's student and his ardent admirer. He was often a guest at his table and corresponded with him. In 1800 he was commissioned by Kant to write a biography. Jachmann took an enlightened position in the sense of Kant, in that he wanted to promote all people through education . In each he saw a “representative of humanity”, which as a species must be perfected through education.

With his friend and deputy at the Conradinum Franz Ludwig Passow he edited the archive of German nation building . During the wars of liberation , Jachmann wrote a plan for a "national education" that should also help Prussia to regain its strength. As a new humanist he wanted to place the ancient languages ​​in a central position, “that the boy should understand the world in which he lives with the past and the way in which he and his nation thinks and acts and expresses his nationality through his language Learn to compare the way of thinking and acting and the language of other peoples; through which he first realizes, justifies and ennobles his nationality ”.

Works

• Immanuel Kant described in his letters to a friend , Königsberg 1804
• The National School , 1812

literature

• Franzjörg Baumgart: Between reform and reaction. Prussian school policy 1806-1859 , Darmstadt 1990
• Felix Groß, Rudolf Malter (ed.): Immanuel Kant, His life in representations of contemporaries (Borowski, Jachmann, Wasianski), Darmstadt 1993
• Ernst W. Orth :  Jachmann, Reinhold Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 213-215 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Schrader:  Jachmann, Reinhold Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 528-530.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann  in the German Digital Library
• Open library