Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German teacher
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Place of Birth: Auerbach, Saxony, Germany
About Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann
- Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann (25 June 1789, Auerbach, Saxony - 27 March 1848, Frankfurt) was a German teacher.
- His father was higher priest in Auerbach, his two brothers worked as councillor in Dresden and as priest in Syrau.
- Wilhelm Ackermann learned on the college of Gotha, then beginning in 1807 studied theology in Leipzig.
- During his studies, he began teaching and found his vocation therein.
- Asked by his uncle Rudolph Ackermann, a merchant from London, he began in 1811 to teach young Englishmen with whom he stayed for two years with the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Ifferten.
- Ackermann said he was learning daily from the ingenious old man, so plenty of inspirations.
- In 1813 he entered the Freikorps of baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow in an enthusiasm to free his fatherland.
- He served as rifleman and became officer on 26 August.
- On the same day Karl Theodor Körner fell.
- Ackermann and other officers dug the grave of their friend under an oak in Wöbbelin.
- During the Battle of the Göhrde, he captured a cannon and received the Iron cross of honour.
- He accompanied the corps until Paris.
- After the peace treaty of 1814, Ackermann went to London where he worked as correspondent for the companies of his uncle.
- In winter, he travelled to Germany, where he visited the house of Theodor Körner.
- In London, he kept company with the teacher of elocution Alexander Graham Bell, whose rather passive teaching system contrasted with the tenets of Pestalozzi followed by Ackermann.
- Beginning in 1815, he travelled again to Ifferten with five pupils, and Dr.
- Bell followed soon.
- All attempts to convince Dr.
- Bell from the side of Pestalozzi and Ackermann remained fruitless.
- In the following years, Ackermann travels with his pupils or stays at friendly institutes. In 1819, he reaches Frankfurt, where he accepts a regular teaching position at the Musterschule (4 July 1820), where he preferred to teach history and German.
- While there, he stood up for religious and political freedom, restricted by the resolutions of 28 June 1823.
- He remained in office until the end of the year 1847, when he retired with chest troubles.
- Ackermann never married.
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