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Milde, Vincenz Eduard
© Copyright Vincenz Eduard Milde, water-colour painting by J. Kriehuber, 1847 Milde, Vincenz Eduard, b. Brno, Czech Republic (then Brünn), May 11, 1777, d. Vienna, March 14, 1853, priest and pedagogue. First professor to hold the chair of pedagogy at the University of Vienna (1805-1810), head of the school of philosophy in Krems (1815-1823), Bishop of Leitmeritz (1823-1832), Archbishop of Vienna (1832-1853). One of the most significant educationalists in Austria; integrated psychology and anthropology into pedagogy, developed therapeutic and social pedagogy and advocated what where then very modern ideas (re-socialisation of released prisoners, sex education, political education as a teaching principle, etc.). Work: Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Erziehungskunde, 2 vols., 1811/1813. Literature: H. Engelbrecht, Zur Problematik und zu den Aufgaben einer Milde-Biographie, in: Bundesgymn. Krems Festschrift, 1977; NDB.
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