Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Portrait by Francisco Javier Ramos, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (c. 1806)
Born	(1746-01-12)12 January 1746 Zürich, Switzerland
Died	17 February 1827(1827-02-17) (aged 81) Brugg, Switzerland
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	German Romanticism
Notable ideas	Four-sphere concept of life

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪnrɪç pɛstaˈlɔtsiː] ^ⓘ, Italian: [pestaˈlɔttsi]; 12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was "Learning by head, hand and heart". Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.