Gustav Adolf Lindner (1828-1887) stand as one of the most significant pedagogical figures from the second half of the 19th century in the Habsburg monarchy and wider area. Although he was born in the Czech Republic, where he also studied and worked as a teacher, his liberal views meant he was forced to seek employment elsewhere. In 1854, his career path brought him to Slovenia, where he taught at the classical high school in Celje until 1872. During that period, he wrote three textbooks in the field of philosophical propaedeutics, which were prescribed in classical high schools throughout the monarchy and other texts that were considered influential. In 1870 he became a member of the governing body of the Society for Scientific Pedagogy (Verein für wissenschaftliche Pädagogik), which Tuiscon Ziller had founded two years previously in Leipzig. The society was the intellectual centre of Herbartian pedagogy – the pedagogical doctrine that dominated until the turn of the century and remained influential during the two wars. Lindner was a rather individual representative of Herbartism and because of differences of opinion with other leading figures, he soon left the association. Regardless, Lindner's presence in Celje and his international profile represent a link to the leading pedagogical theory of the time, which far surpassed the level of domestic pedagogical thought.