Theodor Vogt

Theodor Vogt

Theodor Vogt (born December 25, 1835 in Schirgiswalde (Saxony), † November 11, 1906 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian pedagogue . He was the first qualified pedagogue in Austria and was one of the founders of the pedagogical seminar at the University of Vienna .

Life

Theodor Vogt was born in Schirgiswalde in 1835 as the first of five children to a farm worker. There he attended the local parish school. From 1848 to 1850 he studied at the Catholic Progymnasium in Dresden . At the same time Vogt worked as a choirboy at the royal court orchestra. In 1850 he moved to the grammar school in Prague , where he stayed until 1857. In addition to school, Theodor Vogt worked as a private tutor from 1855. From 1857 to 1862 he studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Vienna, which he completed with a doctorate . To finance his living he also gave music lessons. In 1865 Vogt completed his habilitation with the essay Plato's Pedagogy in its main points . His work The Dualism in Psychology was published a year earlier . Vogt was the first candidate to achieve a habilitation in pedagogy in Austria. He then worked as a teacher at the University of Vienna until his death. His teaching license was extended in 1868 to include philosophy (except the history of philosophy). In philosophical terms, namely in the philosophical foundations of pedagogy, Vogt joined the Herbart school in the sense of Ziller .

He was the author of numerous philosophical-pedagogical articles, advertisements, etc. in the "Zeitschrift für die Österreichische Gymnasien", the "Zeitschrift für exact Philosophie", the "Allgemeine Schulzeitung" and the "Yearbook of the Association for Scientific Pedagogy", which he has directed since 1882 , which he chaired at the same time. In addition to a few pamphlets, he edited Kant's "About Pedagogy" and Fichte's "Reden an die deutsche Nation" with biographies and wrote the biography of Rousseau for Sallwürk's translation of "Emile".

In 1871 Theodor Vogt was appointed associate professor for education. In 1877 he was one of the founders of the educational seminar that was set up at the University of Vienna at the request of the Ministry of Education. His activity led to his appointment as full professor for education in 1898. Theodor Vogt died on November 11, 1906 in Vienna. He had been married since 1871 and had two children.

Fonts

• The pedagogical university seminar in relation to the existing legal regulations in Prussia and Austria on the education of teachers in higher schools. Veit, Leipzig 1884.
• Judgments of an empiricist about Herbart's pedagogy and its foundations. In: Yearbook of the Association for Scientific Pedagogy. Vol. 36, 1904, ZDB -ID 218014-5 , pp. 234-247, online .
• Concerning opinions of the present. In: Yearbook of the Association for Scientific Education. Vol. 38, 1906, pp. 272-291, online .

In addition, Vogt published around 45 articles in magazines and handbooks with a focus on the history of ideas in education.

Commemoration

The Vogtgasse in Vienna's 14th district is named after Theodor Vogt .

literature

• Wolfgang Brezinka : The history of the subject of education at the Austrian universities from 1805-1970. In: Paedagogica Historica. Vol. 31, No. 2, 1995, ISSN  0030-9230 , pp. 407-444, doi : 10.1080 / 0030923950310202 .
• Wolfgang Brezinka: Education in Austria. Volume 1: Introduction: Schools, Universities and Education in the Habsburg Empire and in the Republic. Pedagogy at the University of Vienna. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2908-4 , pp. 271–288.

Individual evidence

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