Wilhelm Rein

Wilhelm Rein (10 August 1847 in Eisenach – 19 February 1929 in Jena) was a German educational theorist.

After graduating from the Eisenach gymnasium in 1866, Rein studied theology in Jena, also listening to lectures on pedagogy by Karl Volkmar Stoy who he followed a year later to Heidelberg.

He returned to Jena in 1868 and passed his theological candidacy exam in Weimar in 1869.

In 1886, he was appointed professor in Jena as Stoy's successor.

He edited Niemeyer's Grundsätze der Erziehung (1878–79), and founded the educational journal Pädagogische Studien in 1880.