Wilhelm Curtmann (pedagogue)

Wilhelm Jakob Georg Curtmann (born March 3, 1802 in Alsfeld , † February 6, 1871 in Gießen ) was a German educator .

Life

Curtmann received his first training at the city school of Alsfeld, of which his father was the principal . Around 1815 he moved to the Gießen high school and in 1818 to the University of Gießen , where he studied theology until 1821 . He also heard poetry and philology. After completing his studies, he accepted a position as a private tutor with District Administrator Justus von Zangen in Gießen, and in 1822 he switched to the Chamberlain of Laykam in Darmstadt as court master before he was employed as a teacher at a private school for senior sons in Michelstadt in 1823 . During this time he decided not to pursue a career as a preacher, but to devote himself entirely to teaching.

After passing the grammar school teacher examination in the same year, on November 14, 1826, Curtmann became a teacher at the Pädagogium Gießen and in the following year, 1827, at the university there as a Dr. phil. PhD . On November 9, 1830 he received the position of director of the Worms grammar school and in 1832 became a member of the district school commission for the canton of Worms and on June 6, 1833 a member of the district school commission of the cantons Pfeddersheim and Worms.

Curtmann moved to Offenbach am Main on August 15, 1833 as director of the newly founded secondary school in Offenbach , which opened in 1834, and on April 2, 1840, became a member of the district school commission of the Offenbach district. On March 26, 1841, he was finally appointed director of the school teacher seminar in Friedberg . There he was the successor of the founding director Christian Theodor Roth until his retirement on May 19, 1864.

Honors

• May 10, 1864 Russian Order of St. Stanislaus II class
• May 19, 1864 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous

Works (selection)

• School and life: an award-winning publication, Bindernagel, Freidberg 1842.
• Textbook of education and instruction , 3 volumes, 5th edition, Winter, Heidelberg 1846:
  • Volume 1: The educational theory .
  • Volume 2: Textbook of applied pedagogy and general teaching .
  • Volume 3: Textbook of Special Methodology and School Studies .
• The reform of the elementary school: answering the question , Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1851.
• Reader for the level of perception , 3rd edition, Heinemann, Gießen 1853.
• Flower, fruit and thorn pieces for adult youth , Bindernagel and Schimpf, Freidberg 1862.

literature

• Johannes Fölsing: Dr. WJG Curtman: his life and work, his importance as a pedagogue , Siegismund and Volkening, Leipzig 1878.
• Philipp Walther :  Curtman, Wilhelm Jakob Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 653 f.
• Herman Haupt : Hessische Biographien , Volume 1, Darmstadt 1918, pp. 331–336.

Web links

• Curtman, Wilhelm Jakob Georg. Hessian biography. (As of July 26, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Works by and about Wilhelm Curtmann  in the German Digital Library