The New International Encyclopædia/Hailmann, William Nicholas
HAILMANN, hāl'mȧn, 
(1836—). An American educator, born in the
Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. He studied in the
gymnasium at Zurich, Switzerland, and with
a tutor, and in 1855 entered the Medical
College at Louisville, Ky. He taught in the Louisville
High School from 1856 to 1865; was
director of the German and English Academy at
Louisville from 1865 to 1873, of the German
and English Academy at Milwaukee from
1873 to 1878, and of the German-American
Seminary at Detroit from 1878 to 1883, when
he became superintendent of public schools at
La Porte, Ind., a position which he held until
1894. From 1894 to 1898 he was the National
Superintendent of Indian Schools, and in 1898
was appointed superintendent of instruction at
Dayton, Ohio. His publications, many of which
are on educational subjects, include: Outlines of
a System of Object Teaching (1866); History
of Pedagogy (1870); Kindergarten Culture
(1872); Letters to a Mother (1876); Early
Education (1878); Primary Helps (1884); Primary
Methods (1887); Application of Psychology to
Teaching (1887); and Place and Development of
Purpose in Education (1899), He also translated
Froebel, The Education of Man (1890);
and edited the Erziehungsblätter (1870-83) and
The Kindergarten Messenger and New Education
(1876-83).