Robert Ulich

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Heinrich Gottlob Robert Ulich (born April 21, 1890 in Lam ; † June 17, 1977 in Stuttgart ) was a German ministerial official , Germanist and educationalist .

Life

Ulich was born in Lam in the Upper Palatinate in 1890, the son of a businessman . He attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig from 1905 to 1906 and in 1909 passed his Abitur at the Royal Gymnasium in Dresden .

From 1909 to 1915 he studied German , history , philosophy and social sciences at the University of Freiburg , the University of Neuchâtel , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Leipzig . In 1915 he was assistant at the Institute for Cultural and Universal History at the University of Leipzig and was awarded the dissertation Christian Friedrich Scherenberg at Walter Goetz to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1916 to 1917 he was a teacher at the Thomas School in Leipzig . He then worked at the Leipzig University Library .

From 1920 to 1933 he was an employee (later Ministerialrat ) in the Saxon Ministry for National Education in Dresden. He was head of the Universities and Research department and personnel officer at the university and technical university. From 1925 he was a member of the board of directors of the German National Academic Foundation .

In 1928 he became honorary professor for philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1929 he married the Swedish philanthropist Elsa Brändström (previously he was married to the women's rights activist and member of the state parliament Else Ulich-Beil ). He was a member of the SPD and a supporter of Paul Tillich's religious socialism . From 1931 he was a board member of the German section World Federation for Renewal of Education of the New Education Fellowship . The Romanist Victor Klemperer was one of his confidants .

In 1934 he emigrated to the USA . He became a lecturer (from 1937 to 1960 professor ) in philosophy and history of education at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Together with Isaac Leon Kandel, he is considered the founder of comparative education in the USA and was co-editor of the Harvard Educational Review . After his wife's death in 1948, he married his third wife, Mary Ewen Ulich, a former student. In 1970 he returned to Germany.

Grave of Robert Ulich in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Robert Ulich died in Stuttgart in June 1977 at the age of 87. He was buried in Berlin in the Ulich family's hereditary burial in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Charlottenburg (today's district of Berlin-Westend ), where his first wife Else Ulich-Beil was buried in 1965 (grave location: I-Erb.-Mauer). Both rest at the side of their son Eckart Ulich (1923–1943), who died in the spring of 1943 from the injuries he had suffered in the Africa campaign the previous year .

Membership and Awards

In 1941 Ulich was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1958 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts

  • I love you, earth! Poems. Dieterich, Leipzig 1913.
  • Christian Friedrich Scherenberg. A contribution to the literary history of the nineteenth century. R. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1915.
  • Fundamentals of Democratic Education. An Introduction to Educational Philosophy. American Book Company, New York et al. 1940.
  • The Training of Secondary School Teachers: Especially with Reference to English. Report of a Joint Committee of the Faculty of Harvard College and of the Graduate School of Education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1942.
  • History of Educational Thought. American Book Company, New York et al. 1945.
  • Conditions of Civilized Living. Dutton, New York 1946.
  • Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom. Selections From Great Documents. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1947.
  • Religious Perspectives of College Teaching in the Preparation of Teachers. The Edward W. Hazen Foundation, New Haven 1950.
  • Crisis and Hope in American Education. Beacon Press, Boston 1951.
  • The Human Career. A Philosophy of Self Transcendence. Harper & Brothers, New York 1955.
  • Way and instruction. A philosophy of human life. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1958.
  • The Education of Nations. A Comparison in Historical Perspective. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1961.
  • Progress or Disaster? From the Bourgeois to the World Citizen. New York University Press, New York 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola high school in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 35
  2. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 18.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.
  4. ↑ Else Ulich-Beil: I went my way. Life memories . Herbig, Berlin-Grunewald 1961. pp. 151-155.
  5. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ulich, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulich, Heinrich Gottlob Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educational and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Lam
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1977
Place of death Stuttgart