Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
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
Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have uni
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
…practices which he illustrated in his six months' labors at Stans. He had the deepest effect on all branches of education, and his influence continues. Friedrich Fröbel, the creator of the concept of the kindergarten, was a student of Pestalozzi. Pestalozzi's ideas inspired Charles Mayo who returned from Switzerland…
Frederick Froebel Bardeen
House in Oberweißbach where Fröbel was born
Allgemeine Deutsche Erziehungsanstalt in Keilhau, nowadays the Keilhau Free Fröbel School
The Fröbel Memorial at the Fröbel Kindergarten in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, shows the pedagogical basic forms.