Wilhelm Rein

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Wilhelm Rein, photography by Friedrich Haack (ca.1890)
Wilhelm Rein (1865)

Wilhelm Rein (born August 10, 1847 in Eisenach , † February 19, 1929 in Jena ) was a German educator . He is considered the most influential and at the same time the last representative of Herbartianism .

Life

Grave in the north cemetery in Jena

Rein was born as the fifth of six children of the archeologist and grammar school professor Wilhelm Rein (1809-1865) and his wife Dorothea Luise Christiana (1815-1887). From 1857 he attended the Carl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Eisenach and passed the school leaving examination there in 1866.

Then Rein began studying Protestant theology at the University of Jena in the summer semester of 1866 , where he also attended lectures on pedagogy by the Herbartian Karl Volkmar Stoy , whom he followed in autumn 1867 for a year at the University of Heidelberg . Returning to Jena for the winter semester of 1868/69, he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller in 1868 and passed the theological candidate exam in the summer of 1869.

After that, clean finally turned the teaching and went to the winter semester 1869/70 at the University of Leipzig to Tuiskon Ziller to hear it first, then worked at the training school as an intern as a teacher. Because of factual differences with Ziller, Rein moved to the Barmen Realgymnasium in 1871 , where he was strongly influenced by Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld . After his first dissertation was rejected at the universities of Leipzig and Bonn, he was finally in 1872 with a thesis on Herbart government, education and breeding at the University of Rostock to Dr. phil. PhD .

Also in 1872 he became a senior seminar teacher in Weimar and in 1876 seminar director in Eisenach . In 1886 he was appointed honorary professor in Jena, and in 1912 full professor . He developed the educational seminar and training school founded by Stoy into a center of international renown, founded holiday courses for teacher training and promoted the adult education movement . He gave the Herbart-Ziller formal stages the German names: preparation, presentation, connection, summary, application . One of his students was Hermann Lietz , founder of the rural education centers .

In addition to his educational work, Rein was also politically active. He was a member of Friedrich Naumann's National Social Association , for which he developed a future-oriented school program in 1898, including a general elementary school, a compulsory advanced training school from 14 to 18 years of age, financial support for gifted students for attending higher schools and general freedom of teaching materials demanded and advocated an upgrade of the elementary school teaching profession.

After his death he was buried in the Jena North Cemetery. He had three sons, including Adolf Rein and two daughters. One of them married Rein's doctoral student Georg Weiß .

Fonts (selection)

  • with A. Pickel and E. Scheller: Theory and practice of elementary school instruction according to Herbartian principles. 8 volumes. Dresden / Leipzig 1878ff.
  • Pedagogy in plan. Leipzig 1890.
  • Fine Arts and School : A Study of the Inside of School Reform. Dresden 1902. Digitized edition
  • Outline of ethics. Osterwieck 1902.
  • Pedagogy in a systematic presentation. 2 volumes. Langensalza 1902ff.
  • Basics of pedagogy and didactics. Leipzig 1909.
  • (Ed.): Encyclopedia Manual of Pedagogy. 7 volumes. Langensalza 1895ff. (2nd edition: 11 volumes. Langensalza 1903ff.)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 409.
  2. ↑ Dieter Düding: The National Social Association 1896-1903. The failed attempt at a party-political synthesis of nationalism, socialism and liberalism. Oldenbourg, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43801-8 , p. 149 (note 10).
personal data
SURNAME Rein, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1929
Place of death Jena