Wilhelm Rein (10 August 1847 in

Eisenach Eisenach () is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situat ...

– 19 February 1929 in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

) was a German educational theorist. He was a late representative of the Herbartian school.

Biography

After graduating from the Eisenach gymnasium in 1866, Rein studied theology in

, also listening to lectures on pedagogy by Karl Volkmar Stoy who he followed a year later to

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

. He returned to Jena in 1868 and passed his theological candidacy exam in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

in 1869. At this point, he turned his studies exclusively to pedagogy, going on to study under Tuiskon Ziller at

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

. In 1871 he became a teacher at Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld's school in Barmen, in 1872 a teacher in

, and moved to Eisenach in 1876. In 1886, he was appointed professor in Jena as Stoy's successor. One of his students was

Hermann Lietz Hermann Lietz (28 April 1868, in Putbus, Dumgenevitz auf Rügen – 12 June 1919, in Haubinda) was a German Progressive education, educational progressive and theologian who founded the German ''Landerziehungsheime für Jungen'' (country boarding s ...

Works

* ''Theorie und Praxis des Volksschulunterrichts'' (“Theory and practice of common school instruction,” 1879-93) * ''Pedagogik im Grundriss'' (“Outline of pedagogy,” 1892) He edited

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's ''Grundsätze der Erziehung'' (1878–79), and founded the educational journal ''Pädagogische Studien'' in 1880.

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References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rein, Wilhelm 1847 births 1929 deaths People from Eisenach People from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach National-Social Association politicians German educational theorists 19th-century German educators University of Jena alumni Academic staff of the University of Jena