Lautz, Theodor

Grammar school teacher

born: 29.06.1835 in Gusternhain

died: 05.09.1906 in Wiesbaden

Lautz, the son of a teacher, attended the teacher training colleges in Idstein and Usingen from 1851. He then worked as a teacher in Darmstadt from 1854 to 1856. After studying natural sciences in the laboratory of the chemist Carl Remigius Fresenius, he was a secondary school teacher in Herborn from 1863. From 1864, he initially worked at the Usingen teacher training college and from 1870 until his retirement in 1904 at the secondary school in Wiesbaden. He was promoted to senior teacher in 1881 and appointed professor in 1897.

He was a staunch supporter of the industrial school system. Lautz wrote articles on further education schools and, in 1885, the history of the trade association for Nassau.