Saksalaiset opettajat suomalaisen insinöörikunnan kasvattajina

Authors

• Panu Nykänen

Abstract

German teachers as educators of Finnish engineers

The rapid development of technology and industry in Finland in the 19th century was based on a purposive technology transfer and furthering of education and research of science and technology. The most important constraint for the development of education in the whole Northern Europe was the shortage of competent teachers. Thus the experts of technology, coming to Finland from abroad, and especially from Germany since the 1860s, were important agents of change in the 19th-century Finland. When the institutionalized education of technology was started in Helsinki in 1849, the system was adopted from the German language area (gewerbschule, realschule). Until the First World War, German was practically the third official language of the Polytechnic Institute (since 1908 University of Technology).