Wilhelm Stern (pedagogue)

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Wilhelm Stern (born April 22, 1792 in Mosbach , † March 31, 1873 in Karlsruhe ) was a German educator .

Wilhelm Stern, influenced by Pestalozzi , had a great influence on elementary schools in Baden as professor and director of the teacher training college in Karlsruhe . He has written numerous textbooks.

Portrait of Wilhelm Stern

Life

Wilhelm Stern was born as the son of master baker Martin Stern in Mosbach and grew up there. From the age of 14 he attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe , where Johann Peter Hebel had a great influence on his intellectual development. This was followed by studying theology and natural science in Heidelberg . Driven from Heidelberg by warlike events around 1813, he completed his studies in Tübingen . After graduating, he worked for his teacher and friend Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi on Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland. In 1823 he was entrusted with setting up the Protestant teacher training institute in Karlsruhe. He was friends with the educators Heinrich Dittmar and Heinrich Wilhelm David Heman in the Palatinate town of Grünstadt , whom he visited there frequently in the 1830s.

As a teacher, professor and director of the teachers' seminar in Karlsruhe, Wilhelm Stern had a decisive influence on the school system in Baden. His numerous language, reading and arithmetic books were used in Baden school lessons for decades. Wilhelm Stern died at the age of 80 on March 31, 1873.

The Wilhelm Stern primary school in Mosbach is named after him.

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Ledderhose: Wilhelm Stern, former professor and seminar director in Karlsruhe , Heidelberg 1877, digital view
  • Ferdinand Leutz: Wilhelm Stern. In: Badische Biographien 2, Karlsruhe 1881, pp. 315–321.
  • Karl Friedrich Ledderhose:  Stern, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 110-116.
  • Karl Kobe: Wilhelm Stern as a schoolboy , Bühl 1903.
  • Otto König: Wilhelm Stern, the life picture of a great educator , Mosbach 1958.
  • Bruno König: Wilhelm Stern and his ancestors , Elztal-Dallau 1976.
  • Bruno König: Wilhelm Stern (1792–1873) . In: Mosbacher Hefte 17, Mosbach 2007, pp. 64–75.

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Stern  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Kehr: Pedagogical sheets for teacher training and teacher training institutes , Volume 2, p. 258, Gotha, 1873; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosbach
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1873
Place of death Karlsruhe