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GRAFE, HEINRICH (1802–1868)

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GRAFE, HEINRICH (1802–1868) , See also:German educationist, was See also:born at Buttstadt in See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar on the 3rd of May 1802, He studied See also:mathematics and See also:theology at See also:Jena, and in 1823 obtained a curacy in the See also:town See also:church of Weimar. He was transferred to Jena as See also:rector of the town school in 1825; in 184o he was also appointed extraordinary See also:professor of the See also:science of See also:education (Padagogik) in that university; and in 1842 h/ became See also:head of the Biirgerschule (See also:middle class school) in See also:Cassel. After reorganizing the See also:schools of the town, he became director of the new Realschule in 1843; and, devoting himself to the interests of educational reform in electoral See also:Hesse, he became in 1849 a member of the school See also:commission, and also entered the See also:house of representatives, where he made himself somewhat formidable as an agitator. In 1852 for having been implicated in the See also:September riots and in the See also:movement against the unpopular See also:minister See also:Hassenpflug, who had dissolved the school commission, he was condemned to three years' imprisonment, a See also:sentence afterwards reduced to one of twelve months. On his See also:release he withdrew to See also:Geneva, where he engaged in educational See also:work till 1855, when he was appointed director of the school of See also:industry at See also:Bremen. He died in that See also:city on the 21st of See also:July 1868. Besides being the author of many See also:text-books and occasional papers on educational subjects, he wrote Das Rechisverhaltnis der Volksschule von innen and aussen (1829); See also:Die Schulreform (1834); Schule and Unterricht (1839); Allgemeine Padagogik (1845); Die deutsche Volksschule (184.7). Together with See also:Naumann, he also edited the Archie See also:fur das praktische Volksschulwesen (1828–1835).

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