Jost Winteler 21 November - 23 February was a Swiss professor of Greek and history [ 1 ] at the Kantonsschule Aarau today called the Old Cantonal School Aarau , a linguist , [ 2 ] a "noted" philologist , [ 3 ] an ornithologist , a journalist , [ 4 ] and a published poet. Jost Winteler was born on 21 November in Filzbach , canton of Glarus.
His father was a secondary school teacher, [ 11 ] and, as such, Winteler received his primary schooling at home, starting around In , he attended school in Nesslau , canton of St. Winteler received his Matura , the equivalent of a high school diploma , from the Thurgau Kantonsschule in Frauenfeld , canton of Thurgau. He went on to study philology at the University of Jena from to Winteler's academic training has been described as "rigorous". Professor Winteler began work as a teacher in the Autumn of at the Zollikofer school for girls, located in Romanshorn , canton of Thurgau.
Then, from to , he taught at the gymnasium in Burgdorf , canton of Bern. He then become the director of the gymnasium in Murten , canton of Fribourg , starting in , but he resigned from his post several years later, in , as a direct result of coming into conflict with the school's "hardline" ultramontanist governors. For the next twenty-five years of his life, from to , Winteler would teach Greek and history at the Aargau Kantonsschule. The Aargau Kantonsschule Aargau Canton School , located close by to an experimental school that had been created by the educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , was, "one of the best-regarded in Switzerland".
Albert Einstein's only sister, Maria "Maja" Winteler-Einstein , once described Winteler's school, which her brother had attended in his youth, as having, "a deservedly high reputation".
As such, the school was often attended by foreigners , some of whom had traveled as far away as overseas. On 26 October , Einstein was enrolled as a third-year pupil at the secondary school; the school year had already started three days earlier.
