Ahn

Ahn, JOHANN FRANZ, educationist, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1796, and died 21st August 1865, having from 1824 till 1863 held various scholastic offices in his native city and at Neuss. His French Grammar for Germans (1834) has gone through more than 200 editions, and was succeeded by similar works on English, Italian, and Dutch. Ahn's method—an extension of Seidensticker's, who died in 1817—is that of making the example precede the rule, so that the pupil learns a foreign language much as, when a child, he learned his own.