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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES (G) Refers to Roger DeGuimps's Pestalozzi, His Aim and Work, Syracuse, C. W. Bardeen, 1889. 1 (p. 18)--Ith, J. von, wrote Official Report ofthe Pestalozzian Institute and the New Method of Teaching. Bern and Zurich, 1802. This was one of the first works published on the new method of Burgdorf. Johannsen published a Criticism of the Pcstalozzian Method. Jena and Leipzig, 1804. Niederer, editor of Pestalozzi's collected works, was one of Pestalozzi's principal fellow-workers at Yverdun, and had great influence over him. His first work, The Pcstalozzian Institute and the Public, with a preface by Pestalozzi, was published at Yverdun in 1811; Pestalozzi's Educational Undertaking in its Relation to the Culture of the Age, 2 vols., Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1812-13. 2 (p. 18)--Gruner published Letters from Burgdorf about Pestalozzi, his Method and his Institute. 1804, Ed. 2, 180G, Frankfort. Yon Turk was of a noble family in North Germany. He gave up a good position in the magistracy of Oldenburg, and went to Yverdun to study Pestalozzi's work and methods. He was the author of Contributions to Information about German Elementary Schools and letters from MItnchcn-Ruchsee on Pestalozzi and his Educational Method, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1806. He was appointed Counsellor of State at Potsdam, and worked zealously for thirty years in propagating and applying Pestalozzi's method. (G., p. 162.) Chavannes, D. A. An Account of the Elementary Method of H. Pestalozzi, with an account of the works of this celebrated man, his Institute, principles, and fellow-workers. Paris, 1805. Ed. 2, 1809. 3 (p. 29)--Lavater, Johann Kasper, Zurich, 1741 1802. Died Jan. 2, from effects of a bullet-wound received on Sept. 22, 1799, when the French entered Zurich, while he...