Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss pedagogue, 1746-1827
"Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. Pestalozzi felt that education must be broken down to its elements in order to have a complete understanding of it. He emphasized that every aspect of a child's life contributed to the formation of their personality, character, and capacity to reason. His motto was ""Learning by head, hand and heart"". He founded several educational institutions and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830."
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Pädagoge (1746-1827). Autograph letter signed ("Pestalozzi"). Yverdon. 03.07.1812. 1 S. 4to. Verso Adresse.
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Unpublished letter to the Zurich merchant David Esslinger, in business matters: "Verehrter lieber Freund! Weilemann [i.e. the linguist Johann Jakob Weilenmann, 1787-1827] wird Ihnen bei seinem Aufenthalt in Zürich wie ich hoffe auch erzählt haben, wie es um Ihren lieben Kleinen stehe; und wie er sich beim lernen und in seinem übrigen Benehmen anlaße. Ich bleibe also bei dem was er Ihnen gesagt, und habe Sie itzt nur noch um die Gefälligkeit ansprechen wollen eine Anweisung von £239 4s die ich heute zu Gunsten des hiesigen Jacob Ellenberger ausstelle, bei Vorkommen zu berichtigen.
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Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Johann Heinrich").
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A nice, long letter to Beethoven's confidants, Therese and Josephine Brunsvik. The Hungarian countesses had just spent six weeks at Pestalozzi's Yverdon institute to train Josephine's six- and seven-year-old sons, Franz and Karl. They were enthusiastic about the Institute: "They promised to help [Pestalozzi] to recommend him to Vienna and especially to the Hungarian government so that he would be entrusted with the reorganization of Hungarian education" (Weisz, p. 201). In November 1808 they returned to Hungary in the company of the young Lucerneian Georg Sigrist (later clergyman in Horw). Pestalozzi's present farewell letter, which also speaks of the profound touch of the pedagogue, reached them in Zurich.