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Pestalozzis Berg
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Pestalozzi's Mountain

Published by Diogenes as Pestalozzis Berg
Original Title: Pestalozzis Berg
The portrait of a fascinating personality: In 1798, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi establishes a home for war orphans in Stans in the Swiss Canton of Nidwalden which has been laid waste by the French Revolutionary Army. In a dilapidated wing of the Capuchin convent, he cares for up to eighty children at times – a never-ending fight against cold, hunger and neglect. Then he has to vacate the convent: It is transformed into a military hospital, and Pestalozzi is accused of being incapable as an educator. He breaks down. Lukas Hartmann depicts the great educator as a passionate and contradictory man. The book has been awarded the ›Book Prize of the City of Berne‹ and the ›Book Prize of the Schiller Foundation‹.

General Fiction
208 pages
2009

978-3-257-24023-8