Burgdorf
Burgdorf , Fr. Berthoud, town (1990 est. pop. 15,373), NW Switzerland, on the Emme River. It is a textile-manufacturing and cheese-trading town. There is a 12th-century castle in which J. H. Pestalozzi, the educational reformer, held (1799-1804) his first school.
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Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus ( bapt . Burgdorf, 18 Jan. 1733; d London, 14 Apr. 1794). Swiss-born painter (mainly in watercolour) and draughtsman, who settled in England in 1768...
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Della Casa, Lisa
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Della Casa, Lisa ( b Burgdorf, nr. Berne, 1919). Swiss soprano. Début Solothurn-Biel 1941 as Butterfly. Member of City Th., Zurich, 1943–50, singing...
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1798 he lived at his farm Neuhof near Zürich, where he conducted a school for poor children. He then directed a school at Burgdorf (1799-1804), and from 1805 until his retirement (1825) to Neuhof he was director of the experimental institute at Yverdon-les-Bai...
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Johann Friedrich Herbart
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Switzerland, where he served as tutor to the governor's three sons. In Switzerland he met Johann Pestalozzi and visited his school at Burgdorf. Herbart taught philosophy and pedagogy at G ö ttingen (1802-1809). He began to seek a sound philosophical base upon which...
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Nicholas Neef, Francis Joseph (1770-1854)
Book article from: American Eras
...inspired by Pestalozzi and sought to become a schoolteacher. Pestalozzi ’ s System . Pestalozzi in 1800 opened a school in Burgdorf, Switzerland. His school differed from most European and American grammar schools of the day, which relied on rote learning...
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