Karl Kehrbach

Karl Kehrbach was a German pedagogue best known as editor of the multi-volume Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica.
He studied pedagogy at the University of Leipzig, and from 1874 was a member of Tuiskon Ziller's educational seminar. For several years he worked as a teacher, and for a period of time served as a librarian at the University of Halle. From 1883 he lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg as a private scholar, receiving the title of professor in 1894. He was a founder of the Gesellschaft für deutsche Erziehungs- und Schulgeschichte, of which he was an editor of its periodical, Mitteilungen.

Published works

From 1886 onward, he was editor of the Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica, which at the time of his death in 1905 had grown to 32 volumes.
In 1887 he began edition of Johann [Friedrich Herbart]'s writings, Sämtliche werke in chronologischer Reihenfolge. After Kehrbach's death the project was continued by Otto Flügel and Theodor Fritzsch.
From 1877 to 1884 he issued editions of the major works of Immanuel Kant in Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek.