Georg Kerschensteiner

Georg Michael Anton Kerschensteiner (July 29, 1854 in München – January 15, 1932 in München) was a German professor and educational theorist. He was director of public schools in Munich from 1895 to 1919 and became a professor at the University of Munich in 1920. The author of Theorie der Bildungsorganisation (1933), Kerschensteiner is primarily known for developing a pragmatic approach to education, which included the integration of academic study with physical activity and the establishment of a network of vocational schools.

External links

• Georg Kerschensteiner in the German National Library catalogue
• Georg Kerschensteiner in der Datenbank der Reichstagsabgeordneten
• Biografie auf der Website der Archivschule Marburg
• Kurzbiographie
• Kolloquium anlässlich des 150. Geburtstags von Georg Kerschensteiner, WiSe 2004/2005 an der LMU München Vier Vorträge im QuickTime-Format, zum Teil mit Simultananzeige der PowerPoint-Präsentation
• Preise der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (darunter auch der Georg-Kerschensteiner-Preis)
• Works by Georg Kerschensteiner at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Georg Kerschensteiner at Internet Archive
• Newspaper clippings about Georg Kerschensteiner in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW