Scouting for boys
The book Scouting for Boys was written by Robert Baden-Powell , founder of the Boy Scouts. It was published in 1908 and forms the basis of the worldwide scouting movement . With a total print run of around 150 million copies, Scouting for Boys is one of the most printed books in the world.
Content
In his work, Baden-Powell processed not only the impressions he had made as an officer with young scouts , especially in the defense of Mafeking , but also the experience he had gained at the first boy scout trial camp in 1907 on Brownsea Island . In the book, Baden-Powell describes his idea of being a boy scout in nine chapters.
The book is divided into campfire sections that were suitable to be read in group lessons or at the campfire. It first appeared as a serialized story in a newspaper. After it was first published as a book, Baden-Powell revised it frequently, which is why there are differences in content between the individual editions.
It replaced the military textbook Aids to Scouting , which, contrary to its concerns, also found many young readers.
German broadcasts
The book was translated into German in 1909 by Alexander Lion and Maximilian Bayer under the title The Pathfinder Book ; based on Scouting for Boys , it has been changed in essential points by the authors. In 1911 another transmission by Karl Hellwig appeared close to the source. His little scouting book went largely unnoticed, however, since large parts of the German scout movement had already decided in favor of the Lion's transmission as a basis for work.
Newer German-language editions bear the title pathfinder , regardless of the translator . They are mostly based on the edition of the Swiss Scout Association, first published in Zurich in 1923 .
Bibliographic references
English editions
- Scouting for boys. Horace Cox, London 1908 (January to March). - first edition; appeared in six brochures, each with about 70 pages.
- Scouting for boys. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, London 1908. - First complete edition, 288 pages.
- Scouting for boys. World Brotherhood Edition. Boy Scouts of America for and on behalf of the Boy Scouts International Bureau , New York NY 1946. - Final version, 314 pages.
- Scouting for boys. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2004, ISBN 0-19-280547-9 . - Annotated historical-critical edition, edited by Elleke Boehmer , LVII and 382 pages
German editions
- Alexander Lion (ed.): The scout book. According to General Baden-Powell's “Scouting for boys”. Verlag der Ärztliche Rundschau Gmelin, Munich 1909. - Influential transmission that significantly shaped the German scout movement; with substantial assistance from Maximilian Bayer ; XII + 340 pages. Later editions under the title Young Germany's Pathfinder Book .
- Karl Hellwig: The little scout book. Official handbook of the "German Scout Corps" and the girl scouts of the "German Wandering Bird" (= miniature library for sport and games. Vol. 47, ZDB -ID 1453576-2 ). Grethlein, Leipzig 1912. - Transmission close to the source with little influence, 107 pages.
- Robert Baden-Powell: Boy Scouts. A Handbook for Educating a Proficient Citizen. Publishing house of the Polygraphisches Institut, Zurich 1923. - Translated by Arnold Schrag for the Swiss Scout Association , 367 pages.
- Johannes Dörrast: manual for boys. Retold from Baden-Powell's scout book. Pflaum, Munich 1948. - 96 pages.
- Robert Baden-Powell: How to become a boy scout. A Guide to Educating Good Citizens through Outdoor Activities. All-time-ready publishing house of the Austrian Scouts, Vienna 1955. - Translated by Otto Sulzenbacher for the Austrian Scouts , 343 pages.
- Robert Baden-Powell: Boy Scouts. Georgs-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977. - Translated by Christa Brüchle and edited by Peter Bleeser for the German Scout Association Sankt Georg , 302 pages
Web links
- Full text of Scouting for Boys in the version from 1954 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Jeal: Baden-Powell: Founder of the scout movement . VdL-Verlag, Wesel 2007, ISBN 978-3-926308-11-5 .
- ^ Paul-Thomas Hinkel: The scout associations in the Federal Republic of Germany (= books on youth education. Vol. 2). 3rd improved and enlarged edition. Hinkel - Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1990, ISBN 3-88778-154-6 , pp. 11–24.