Die Rezeption der Ideen von J.H. Pestalozzi im griechischen Raum während des 19. Jahrhunderts

Abstract

The reception of the pedagogical ideas of the great Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) and the pedagogical influence he exerted also in the Greek region during the 19th century. This book is of particular interest for the pedagogical affairs of the period and certainly for the shaping of Modern Greek pedagogy. Adamantios Korais (1748-1833), a leading figure of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, was the one who, as early as 1809, made the name and work of the great Swiss pedagogue known for the first time in Greece. Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776-1831), who realised that the Greek people as a completely needed education in order to be able to claim their freedom, moved almost in parallel with the initiatives of the Greek Enlightenment. At the same time, he expressed particular interest in Pestalozzi's work. Kapodistrias had the same interest in the work of Pestalozzi’s pupil, the nobleman and politician Philippe-Emmanuel von Fellenberg (1771-1844). Otto’s monarchy, with the regency that followed the assassination of Kapodistria, imposed the transfer to Greece of the single-track Bavarian education system with elements of the neohumanist and neoclassical currents of that time, thus definitively transcending the philanthropist movement.