Theodor von Lerber

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Franz Theodor von Lerber (born July 31, 1823 in Bern ; † December 3, 1901 there ) was a Swiss educator and school founder.

Life

family

Theodor von Lerber came from an old Bernese patrician family that settled in Bern around 1600. He was the second of six children of the politician Beat Rudolf von Lerber (born December 11, 1788 in Bern, † December 23, 1849 ibid) and his wife Sophie (born November 24, 1796 in Bern; † April 28, 1871 ibid), Daughter of the doctor Rudolf Friedrich Hartmann (1769–1806). His uncle was the politician and founder of the Bernese Cantonal Bank Karl Anton von Lerber (1784-1837). Theodor von Lerber was married to Caecilia Sophie Ida (* 1830 in Bern; † January 22, 1893), daughter of the paper mill owner Emanuel Gruner (1783–1863), in Bolligen since August 28, 1851 ; together they had seven children:

  • Eduard Alfons Theodor Lerber (born January 25, 1853 in Bern, † 1906 in Lausanne), mission secretary in Basel , private teacher in Lausanne, married to the teacher Sophia Helena Emma (1856–1937), daughter of Karl Emanuel Friedrich Thormann (1789–1858 ), Head of an educational institution and later bookseller in Bonn;
  • August Arthur Lerber (born June 5, 1854 in Bern; † 1909), preacher in Basel, high school teacher, married to the teacher Louise (1856–1943), daughter of pastor Karl Franz Lauterburg (1825–1871);
  • Johanna Emma Lerber (born March 31, 1857 in Bern; † January 19, 1899), married to Heinrich Theodor Gruner (1856–1937), mining engineer in Geneva and Epinal ;
  • Konstanze Wilhelmine Lerber (born January 30, 1859 in Bern, † March 10, 1859 there);
  • Friedrich Alfred Theodor Lerber (born July 25, 1861 in Bern; 1931), pastor in Trubschachen , married to Helena (1865–1942), daughter of Heinrich Landis (1833–1915), silk merchant, member of the national council , board member of the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt and the Swiss bank Northeast Railway . Her four children included the writer Helene von Lerber ;
  • Otto Franz Gottfried Lerber (born August 27, 1864 in Bern; † November 24, 1864 there);
  • Friedrich Alfred Lerber (born June 3, 1868 in Bern; † 1949), doctor in Laupen and city ​​doctor in Bern, married to Emma Frieda (born December 7, 1871 in Sumiswald), daughter of Karl Friedrich Stettler (1837-1917), pastor in Wasen , Frutigen and at the Burgerspital as well as author of the description of Frutigland .

Career

At a time when his father was in exile , Theodor von Lerber attended the Collège in Lausanne and then began studying philology and philosophy at the University of Lausanne , which he continued at the Universities of Bern , Bonn and Halle ; in Bonn he heard, among other things, lectures by Albrecht Ritschl . After completing his studies, he was a Greek teacher at the Gymnasium Bern (today: Gymnasium Kirchenfeld ) from 1849 to 1855 , but was dismissed due to his pietistic views. Subsequently, in May 1855, together with the pastor Friedrich Gerber, he founded the private institution of the gentlemen von Lerber and Gerber, from which the Protestant teachers' seminar on the Muristalden (today: Campus Muristalden ) developed. There he worked as a teacher and until 1869 as director of the seminar. In 1853 he founded a Christian youth association, which later became part of the Christian Association of Young Men . He joined the Evangelical Society in 1855 , but as an uncompromising supporter of verbal inspiration encountered resistance in the Evangelical Society's committee and resigned from its general assembly in 1894. In 1859 he founded a boys' school, the so-called Lerberschule, which he headed as director until 1892 and at which Karl Barth became a pupil in 1892; later it was renamed the Free Gymnasium .

Pedagogical work

Because Theodor von Lerber feared the loss of the humanistic and religious educational content in the school policy of the then radical-liberal government, he decided to found a emphatically Protestant school and developed a school as an alternative to the secular educational ideal of the modern, liberal state . However, in the course of the first few decades there was an increasing rapprochement with the state. At the end of the 1880s disputes began between Theodor von Lerber and his colleagues regarding the reorganization of high school teaching (old languages ​​versus natural sciences and modern languages). This led to the fact that he broke with his school and in 1892 pronounced the prohibition that the school could use the name Lerberschule . Since then, the school has been called the Freie Gymnasium . Theodor von Lerber was an important representative of the free Protestant school system in Bern.

Honors

The Lerberstrasse in Bern was named after Theodor von Lerber, where a street festival always takes place on the first Saturday after the summer holidays.

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Theodor von Lerber . In: Free Gymnasium Bern 1859 - 2009, 150 years of school history .
  • Benedikt Bietenhard: Free High School Bern 1859–2009, 150 years of school history. In: FGB (ed.): The anniversary book. 150 years of the Freie Gymnasium Bern. Bern 2009. pp. 13–82. Online (PDF file, 476 KB)
  • Fritz Graf: 100 years of the Freie Gymnasium Bern 1859–1959 , Bern 1959.
  • Albert von Tavel: Seventy years of free high school in Bern. In the 75th year of its existence, presented as an anniversary gift by Albert von Tavel , Bern in 1934.
  • Rudolf von Tavel: Theodorich von Lerber. A picture of life , Bern 1911.
  • Ludwig von Tscharner: Jubilee of the Free Gymnasium in Bern (Lerberschule) 1859-1909 (festival report) Bern 1909.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lerber, Beat Rudolf von. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bernese families - persons. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Lerber, Karl Anton von. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Karl Barth, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Rolf Joachim Erler: Karl Barth-Charlotte von Kirschbaum, correspondence: 1925-1935 . Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-17436-1 ( google.de [accessed March 9, 2020]).
  5. ^ Christiane Tietz: Karl Barth: A life in contradiction . CH Beck, 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72524-1 ( google.de [accessed on March 9, 2020]).
  6. ^ History. Free High School Bern, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Why is Lerberstrasse called Lerberstrasse? In: Leistpost. November 2018, accessed March 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lerber, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lerber, Theodorich von; Lerber, Franz Theodor von; Lerber, Th. V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant educator and school founder
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1901
Place of death Bern