Wilhelm Jerusalem

Wilhelm Jerusalem (October 11, 1854 in Drenitz/Drenic (Dřenice u Chrudimi), Bohemia – July 15, 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue. Jerusalem studied classical philosophy at the University of Prague and prepared a dctorate entitled "The Inscription of Sestos and Polybios". Until 1887 he was a teacher at grammar schools in Prague and Nikolsburg. In 1888 he became a member of the staff of teachers at the grammar school "k.k. Staatsgymnasium im VIII.Bezirk" (Bundesgymnasium Wien 8) in Vienna. In 1891 he was an outside lecturer at the University of Vienna. One of his interests was education, and he demanded a change of the educational system in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Another of his fields of interest was the education of minorities. He wrote a monograph about the education of the deafblind. In 1890 he published a psychological study about the deafblind Laura Bridgman.