Theophil Lambacher

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Theophil Lambacher (born April 13, 1899 in Stuttgart ; † December 14, 1981 ibid) was a German mathematician, educator and civil servant. He gained fame above all as the namesake and co-editor of the textbook series “ Lambacher Schweizer ”, which has been used in school lessons at German and Swiss grammar schools for more than 65 years .

Lambacher was born in Stuttgart in 1899 as the son of a businessman. He graduated from high school in 1918, did brief military service and studied in Stuttgart and Tübingen from 1918 to 1922 . In 1923 he passed the second examination for the higher teaching post and received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1930 with Karl Komerell and Konrad Knopp . In the meantime he had worked as a teacher at a private school from 1925 to 1927, and from 1930 he taught in Stuttgart and later in Tübingen. It is believed that his political and ideological stance hindered his professional career during the National Socialist era. An approximation method for the district number published by him in 1936 was also used at times in textbooks for the grammar school intermediate level.

In 1946 he was a co-founder and then an assessor of the CDU local group in Tübingen, and in April 1946 he published an article in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt entitled “What we Christian Democrats want”. He then moved to the religious administration was 1947 Senior Government , 1948 Regierungsdirektor and 1949 Councilor in the Ministry of Culture . From 1952 to 1957 he was the first president of the South Württemberg-Hohenzollern High School Office and was involved in the creation of a uniform school system in the newly founded state of Baden-Württemberg . During this time he was also editor-in-chief for mathematics of the journal “Der Mathematische und Naturwissenschaftliche Studium”, published by the Association for the Promotion of Mathematical and Scientific Education , and published numerous of his own works there. He then headed the policy department in the Ministry of Education until his early retirement in 1959.

literature

  • Jörg Stark: 65 years of Lambacher Schweizer: a classic - always up to date , online (PDF)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ op.cit., P. 30.
  2. ↑ Lambacher: Simple approximation constructions . Journal for mathematics and science teaching in all school types 1936, 121–124
  3. ↑ What We Christian Democrats Want. Article in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt, April 16, 1946 online
  4. ↑ Man from the very beginning . Article in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt, April 11, 1979 online
  5. ^ The first president. Obituary in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt, January 11, 1982 online
personal data
SURNAME Lambacher, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, educator and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1981
Place of death Stuttgart