RISTELHUEBER, Johann Baptist.

Ueber die Nothwendigkeit der Errichtung von Arbeits- und Erziehungs-Anstalten für sittlich verwahrlosete Kinder, nebst Anleitung, wie dergleichen Institute zu errichten und zu verwalten sind.

Stuttgart and Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1828. 4to, pp. xxiv, 416 with 12 plates (including 4 large andfolding and 2 lithos) and 9 folding tables in the text; some light spotting here and there, the plates more so, but a good copy in contemporary dark boards, spine with mss lettering paper label. First edition of an early work on the setting up, building and running of an educational and work establishment ('Arbeitsanstalt') for the benefit of feral children. The work was dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.Little is known of Ristelhueber (d. 1848), although other works by him also concern the welfare of the underprivileged and destitute; he wrote on orphanages, prisons and hospitals. In 1814, he became the director of the Arbeitsanstalt in Braunweiler, near Cologne, an institution which endeavoured to reform nearly six hundred children, both male and female, who had been engaged in begging and crime, or affected by it, by providing them with a social and moral education. After some ten years' observation of those entering the institution, Ristelhueber concluded that the children were victims of the amoral and dissolute environment in which they had grown up. The present work is a presentation of his experiences in running the Anstalt, intended as a plan for other similar institutions.In the preface, he gives various case studies of the type of person in his care at Braunweiler, before citing previous literature written on the subject of begging and children. He condemns the practice of letting adults and children in such an institution interact with one another and describes the desirable attributes of those to be employed in the Anstalt. The main body of the work is divided into 25 sections, covering all aspects of the institute and its work: from general rules, punishments, fire regulations and highly detailed instructions for all manner of employees, to the practicalities of sanitation and the economic considerations of feeding and providing for all the children. All this information is presented with the aid of extensive tables (nine of which are on folding leaves); the additional plates show floor plans of the Anstalt, drawings of the clothes worn by the inmates and illustrations of various items in the institute, such as a hand mill, school desk, clothes drier and bedsteads.RLIN locates the Harvard copy only; not found in NUC or OCLC.

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