Veit Valentin (pedagogue)

Veit Georg Philipp Leonhard Valentin (born February 16, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 24, 1900 there ) was a German art theorist and educator . From 1885 he was chairman of the academic committee of the Free German Hochstift .

Life

Valentin was a son of the wine merchant Johann Daniel Valentin (1800–1847) and his wife Catharina, b. Daumer (1805-1878). He came from a Huguenot family. His ancestor Johann Valentin had acquired the citizenship of Frankfurt in 1793 and one year later founded the wine shop Johann Valentin & Otte on Kornmarkt with his brother-in-law . Valentin's maternal relatives included his uncle Georg Friedrich Daumer , Kaspar Hauser's guardian .

Valentin studied at the University of Göttingen . During his studies he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1861 . He was awarded the 1864 prize essay -winning thesis on the formation of the Coptic noun doctorate . From 1863 to 1865 he worked as a research assistant to the archaeologist Eduard Gerhard in Berlin, after which he served for a year as a tutor to a family in Paris. In 1866 he returned to Frankfurt, where he was tutor of various Frankfurt families.

In 1871 he got a job as a teacher at the Wöhlerschule . In addition to his teaching activities, he gained a reputation as a literary scholar and Goethe researcher and published numerous specialist articles on art, aesthetics, poetics and the history of art in Frankfurt. In 1881 he qualified as a high school professor with a thesis on the large fire engine . In 1885 the Freie Deutsche Hochstift elected him chairman of the entire academic committee, and in 1890 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Goethe Society . In 1897 he was raised to the rank of councilors IV class . In 1899 the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach awarded him the House Order of the White Falcon, 1st class.

Valentin was married to Karoline Pichler , the daughter of the architect Oskar Pichler . Her son, the future historian and archivist Veit Valentin , was born in 1885. The daughter Klara Valentin became a high school teacher in Frankfurt. Valentin is buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery. His estate is in the Institute for Urban History , further collections of material, manuscripts and lectures in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library . Valentin was a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Socrates for steadfastness .

Works

• The formation of the Coptic noun (1866)
• Venus de Milo (1872)
• The Städelsche Galerie in Frankfurt am Main in its masterpieces (1877)
• Art, artists and works of art in Frankfurt am Main (1889)
• The classic Walpurgis Night (1891)
• German School Editions (Ed.), Instructions for the Treatment of Classical Literature Works in School Lessons (from 1893)
• Goethe's Faust poem presented in its artistic unity (1894)
• Explanations on Goethe's Faust (1897)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 702–703.
• Silvia Stenger: Valentin, Veit (1842–1900) in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (edited online version), as well as in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 498-499 .

Web links

• Valentin, family. In: Central database of bequests .