On a Contribution to the History of Teaching German as a Foreign Language at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century

The Guide to the Initial Study of German by Students of All Nationalities („Leitfaden für den ersten Unterricht im Deutschen. Zum Gebrauche für Schüler aller Nationalitӓten”) presented here was available at the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX century for the Bulgarian audience, but it was more popular in the pan-European educational context, as it provides interesting linguodidactological guidelines for the first lessons in German. However, the abundance of texts and grammatical rules rather shows that the authors have not managed to emancipate themselves completely from the dogmatism of the grammar-translation method and from the imperative memorization of words and rules.