Herman Nohl

Herman Nohl (October 7, 1879, in Berlin – September 27, 1960, in Göttingen) was a German philosopher and pedagogue.

World War I was a major turning point in Herman Nohl's life. The consequences of the war and his involvement with the youth movement and the folk high school prompted him to devote himself to pedagogy. He subsequently became one of the best-known representatives of reform pedagogy and humanities pedagogy. Nohl worked on establishing pedagogy as an independent science and the foundation of social pedagogy. He was dismissed from his post in 1937, but resumed his work in 1945. Nohl was Professor of Education at the University of Göttingen, co-editor of the journal ''Die Erziehung'' and founder and editor of the journal ''Die Sammlung''. He wrote several works on aesthetics, educational anthropology and pedagogy, with ''Die Pädagogische Bewegung in Deutschland und ihre Theorie'' being considered his main pedagogical work. Provided by Wikipedia