Allan Kardec
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Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, known by the pen name of Allan Kardec, was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the fo
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Allan Kardec's grave at Cimetière du Père Lachaise. The inscription says Naitre, mourir, renaitre encore et progresser sans cesse, telle est la loi ("To be born, to die, to be reborn again and keep progressing, that is the law").
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
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…was born in Lyon in 1804 and raised as a Roman Catholic. He pursued interests in philosophy and the sciences, and became an acolyte and colleague of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Rivail completed a Bachelor of Arts and a doctorate in medicine. He was also fluent in German, English, Italian, and Spanish, in addition to his native…
Portrait by Francisco Javier Ramos, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (c. 1806)
Grob, Konrad (1879), Pestalozzi with the orphans in Stans (oil on canvas painting)
The Burgdorf Castle where Pestalozzi ran his institute from 1800 to 1804
Memorial in Yverdon