Johann Bernhard Basedow

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Johann Bernhard Basedow , German publicity agent, born with Hamburg in 1723, died in Magdeburg in 1790. Initially professor of Theology, it attracted himself persecutions because of the boldness of his opinions and renonça with teaching to deal with Pédagogie. He tried to reform education and proposed in various writings a new system of which he had borrowed the idea from the Emile of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and by which he wanted to exert the physical forces as much as faculties of the heart.

He found many assentor, and helped by the Prince d' Anhalt-Dessau, he founded in 1774 with Dessau, under the title of Philanthropinion , a school-model where he was to apply his principles; but it harmed the success of this establishment by the coarseness in its manners and its intemperance.

His/her son is the doctor Carl Adolph von Basedow.

Its principal works are:

Philosophie practices for all the conditions , 1758;
Of the education of the princes , translated by Bourgoing, 1777,
Philaléthie or Considerations on the truths of the religion and the reason , 1764, where he preached a natural Religion;
Collection of knowledge necessary to the instruction of youth (with 100 engravings), 1774.

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