Wolfgang Pfleiderer (Philologist)

Wolfgang Pfleiderer (born September 26, 1877 in Eßlingen am Neckar , † January 25, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German philologist, grammar school and adult education center teacher.

Life

After studying modern philology and a doctorate, he became a teacher at the Gymnasium Eßlingen (spelling at that time).

Wolfgang Pfleiderer was the translator and editor of the first German Kierkegaard edition.

Pfleiderer played a key role in the founding of the Association for the Promotion of Popular Education in Württemberg in 1918 by Theodor Bäuerle and Robert Bosch .

In 1923 he was a founding member of the Hohenrodter Bund and, from 1927, second chairman of the Pedagogical Council of the German School for Folk Research and Adult Education . From 1928 he was a board member in the Reich Association of German Adult Education Centers as a representative of Württemberg. From 1925 to 1932 Pfleiderer was director of the Stuttgart Adult Education Center. After 1933 he returned to school.

In 1946 he founded the Schorndorf Adult Education Center and took over its management until 1951.

Fonts

• The emotional relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia . Dissertation Tübingen. Berlin: H. Paetel, 1908
• Soeren Kierkegaard . Collected Works. Translated by Wolfgang Pfleiderer and Christoph Schrempf. Jena: Eugen Diederichs
• Art and people . Basic questions of popular education. Stuttgart 1920

literature

• Fritz Laack 1984: The interlude of free adult education . Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt
• Josef Olbrich 2001: History of Adult Education in Germany . Opladen: Leske

Web links

• http://www.vhs-schorndorf.de/index.php?id=36
• http://www.die-bonn.de/Weiterbildung/Archive/Meta-Archiv/lösungen.aspx

References and comments

1. ↑ Laack 1984, pp. 597f, 618ff
2. ↑ Successors were his son Dietrich and his wife Marianne Pfleiderer (née Herrigel ) (he until 1960, she was in charge until 1975)