Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Swiss educator trained at the Collegium Humanitatis Zurich, in 1977 organized a center for education of poor children, with whom he and his wife lived in community. In 1799 and in 1805 opened two separate educational institutions. His philosophical and pedagogical thinking was reflected in a large literary output between didactic novels were not lacking.