Severin Rüttgers
Severin Rüttgers (born September 27, 1876 in Ameln near Jülich ; † September 22, 1938 in Koblenz ) was a German pedagogue , author , editor and translator who is best known as a reteller of German and Scandinavian folk books and heroic sagas , with which he Tried to propagate “popular” values.
Life
Rüttgers was a teacher in the Düsseldorf area, later a government and school councilor in Koblenz and a lecturer at the college for teacher training in Koblenz. He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1932 .
After some hard-to-date writings on art history, which at least appeared before the First World War , folk books , Germanic and Scandinavian heroic sagas and Christian legends became the focus of his (post) narrative work. In addition, there are retellings of the stories from the Arabian Nights , Robinson Crusoe and medieval chivalric novels , some of which he translated himself from Flemish , English and Early New High German .
Rüttgers was also active as an editor of popular book series (including folk books for young people) and as a co-author of textbooks (Raum und Volk; German reading books for young women in higher education institutions). In addition to his adaptations of older literature, he published politically oriented writings by authors of the 19th century , such as Gustav Freytag (The Young Empire of the Germans), Heinrich von Treitschke (The German Ordensland Prussia) and Theodor Fontane (Spreeland).
Fonts
- On literary education as a problem in the work school: A contribution to the reform of language teaching and reading books and to a reading plan for German youth, Leipzig 1910
- Wodan's Rise and Fate: The Germanic Paganism, Cologne 1911
- The flowers of evil: speech to the friends of children about trash literature, Leipzig 1911
- The poetry in the elementary school: A manual for teachers, Leipzig 1914
- The pedagogical faculty: necessity, institution, tasks, Leipzig 1920
- Reader and class reading: A contribution to education through poetry on the occasion of a dispute, Bielefeld 1922
- Maria in German Art, Saarbrücken 1923
- Rheinsagen, Cologne 1929 ( online )
- Literary education: An attempt on the youth literature question on a sociological basis, Langensalza 1931
- History of German Folk Poetry: A Book for Young Germans, Langensalza 1933
- Awakening the people through his poetry: considerations and advice on popular education, Leipzig 1933
- The golden morning: A German farming year in the Bronze Age, Langensalza 1934
Web links
- Literature by and about Severin Rüttgers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Severin Rüttgers' personnel form in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Archives, NSDAP Central File (No. 116832)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rüttgers, Severin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pedagogy lecturer and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ameln |
DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1938 |
Place of death | Koblenz |