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Theodor Litt

Theodor Litt (27 December 1880 – 16 July 1962) was a German culture and social philosopher as well as a pedagogue. In the debate with Dilthey, Simmel and Cassirer, Litt developed an independent approach in cultural philosophy and philosophical anthropology, which was determined by the dialectical view of the relationship between the individual and society, man and the world, reason and life. At the same time, he projected these thoughts into a geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik that had its starting point in progressive education at the beginning of the 20th century and, via Litt's student Wolfgang Klafki, extended into the discussion on educational reform in the 1970s. Litt identified with the Weimar Republic and, as rector of the University of Leipzig, came into conflict with National Socialism, was banned from lecturing in 1937 and retired early. Nevertheless, he continued to publish critically against the ruling ideology. After the end of the Second World War, he could not come to terms with the ideology of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and therefore moved to the Universität Bonn, where he founded the Institute for pedagogy. Born in Düsseldorf, Litt was the son of the grammar school professor Ferdinand Litt and great-nephew of the theatre director and actor Hermann Litt. From 1890 to 1898, Litt attended the humanistic Städtisches Gymnasium (today's Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf) in Düsseldorf. He then began teacher training in philosophy, history and classical philology (with one semester in Berlin) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In Bonn, he became a member of the Sängerverbindung AMV Makaria Bonn, in Berlin of the Akademische Liedertafel in the Sondershäuser Verband. In 1904 he was awarded a doctorate in classical philology with a dissertation written in Latin. After four years as a teacher of ancient languages and history in Bonn, Kreuznach and from 1906 as a senior teacher in Cologne at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, he was employed for six months as a referent in the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin.

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