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Article: Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf (1744–1811)
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Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf (1744
–
1811)
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, a German theologian, education reformer, and writer, was born in S
ö
mmerda, Germany, in 1744, and died in Schnepfenthal, Germany, in 1811. Salzmann began his pedagogical literary activity while he was still a vicar, but in 1780 went to Dessau to become employed by Johann B. Basedow in his famous school, the Philanthropinum, and helped develop the school's pedagogy (known as
philanthropinism
). Philanthropinism was characterized by an ideal of a loving relationship of trust between children and adults and by the idea that the education should take place joyfully and playfully, complying with the course of ...