Theodor Friedrich (philologist)

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Theodor Friedrich as a young teacher, 1912

Theodor Otto Ludwig Friedrich (born April 9, 1879 in Chemnitz , † December 24, 1947 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist , reform pedagogue , publicist and Goethe researcher .

Life

education

The son of a Chemnitz district high school teacher passed his matriculation examination at the local grammar school on Easter 1898. He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig until 1902 and pedagogy and German studies from 1903 to 1906 . In the meantime he worked as a private tutor in Rathewalde and at Berwartstein Castle . During his pedagogy studies he represented apprenticeships at the IV Realschule in Leipzig and at the grammar school in Greiz . He completed his theological studies with the Examen pro candidatura, his philosophical studies with the pedagogical examination. He received his doctorate in 1907 from the philological faculty of the University of Leipzig . His dissertation The “Notes on Theater” by the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was published in 1908 by the Robert Voigtländer publishing house.

Educational activity

From Easter 1906, he worked as an assistant teacher at the Royal Lehrerseminar in Borna operates. From January 1907 he taught the subjects religion, German and pedagogy at the 2nd municipal high school for girls with an attached teacher seminar in Leipzig. At that time, this school was under the rectorate of the well-known reform pedagogue Hugo Gaudig , who transformed it into an educational institution with a model character due to the consistent application of his pedagogical principles, which received international attention and recognition.

Grave site in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Friedrich became one of the most committed representatives of these new teaching methods. At the Pedagogical Week from January 31 to February 3, 1921, organized for the numerous domestic and foreign interns , Friedrich gave one of the main lectures on the subject: The school class in free activity as well as several lessons on the subject: Consideration of a religious image according to the principle self- employment , free self-maintenance of the class based on self-acquired lyrical memory material or the view of God in the psalms developed in a work-sharing process .

Friedrich worked as a teacher at this educational institution until 1945, which was renamed the Gaudig School in 1927. During this time he was appointed to the faculty and professor. Along with Lotte Müller, he was one of the last representatives of the method of free intellectual activity at this school.

Journalistic activity

Theodor Friedrich was editor of the Jaeger collection of German school editions for higher education institutions .

In addition to various publications on educational and religious topics as well as on the issue of women's education, Friedrich has made a name for himself above all as a Goethe researcher. From 1910 he brought out a complete Goethe edition in four main volumes with a series of supplementary volumes for Reclam Verlag , which was expanded to six main volumes in 1927.

His Faust commentary was published by Reclam Verlag in 1932 and under the title Faust, explained several editions. After the end of the Second World War it was edited by Lothar Scheithauer in 1957 and Siegfried Scheibe in 1963. It was last published in 1996 as a reprint in the Reclam Universal Library series.

Friedrich could no longer complete his last work Welt und Geist in Goethe's Word . He died on Christmas Day 1947 in Leipzig. His ashes were buried in the local south cemetery. Welt und Geist im Goethewort was published posthumously in 1949, edited by Carl Diesch .

Memberships

Theodor Friedrich was a member of the Goethe Society .

Works (selection)

  • World and spirit in the word of Goethe. A selection from Goethe's wisdom from Theodor Friedrich. Completed by Carl Diesch after his death . Biberach an der Riss 1949.
  • Form change of women and women education . Leipzig 1934.
  • Goethe's Faust. With a Faust dictionary . Leipzig 1932.
  • Lively present as a subject . Leipzig 1931.
  • The woman as an educational goal . Leipzig 1929.
  • Career wishes and future plans of the youth in higher schools . Edited with Woldemar Voigt, Breslau 1928.
  • Israel and its religion in the context of the Near East-Egyptian culture . Leipzig 1925; [Aids and textbooks for higher education, 18].
  • Field gray education in Romania. With a list of employees and numerous illustrations . Leipzig 1920.
  • The poor fisherman. Narration . Leipzig 1912.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thirty-fifth report on the secondary school for girls and the teachers' seminar in Leipzig. Easter 1906 to Easter 1907. Leipzig 1907, p. 82.
  2. ↑ See: Hugo Gaudig (Ed.): Free intellectual school work . Breslau 1925, passim.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich, Theodor Otto Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, reform pedagogue, publicist and Goethe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1947
Place of death Leipzig