(Hochschul-) Lehrer Frantzen. Ein Stück Geschichte des ‘Hoch’ und ‘Tief’ in der Germanistik und der Lehrerausbildung Deutsch an der Universität Utrecht

Abstract

This contribution portrays J.J.A.A. Frantzen (1853 – 1923), the first Germanic scholar with a chair in Utrecht, as a teacher and professor of German. The author reaches the conclusion that even after a century the relation between philology and language teaching is still problematic. To counter this he advocates linguistic research into the learning processes involved in language teaching as an autonomous academic approach.