Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff [SEP] place of death
Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff
Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803, Rawicz near Poznań – 3 April 1865, Paris) was a German grammarian and language educator.
Ollendorff is heavily indebted to an early 'modern method' teacher, Jean Manesca, who appears to have written the first fully developed modern language course in the early 1820s—designed for French, Ollendorff was keen to see it adopted for the classics, and actively promoted the idea. His "Oral system of teaching Living Languages Illustrated by a Practical Course of Lessons in the
Ollendorff
Ollendorff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Franz Ollendorff (1900-1981), Israeli physicist
- Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803–1865), German grammarian and language educator
- Henry B. Ollendorff (1907–1979), German-born US social worker