DINTER, GUSTAV FRIEDRICH ), German divine and educator, was born on Feb. 29, I 76o, at Borna, Saxony. He was educated at Leipzig university, and while pastor of a village near Borna, became interested in the training of teachers. From '797 to 1807 he was principal of the Dresden normal school, and after founding a progymnasium at Gornitz, in 1816 was ap pointed inspector of schools of the province of Prussia and shortly afterwards professor of theology at Konigsberg university. In education, Dinter introduced the methods of Pestalozzi and in his famous Schullehrer-bibel (1826-3o) advocated the use of the Bible as an authority in religion only, not in science. He died at Konigsberg on May 29,183i.
See Siiintliche Schriften, 42 Bde. (Neustadt, 184o-51), and his autobiography (Neustadt, 1829).