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FELLENBERG, PHILIPP EMANUEL VON (1771-1844) , Swiss educationist, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:June 1771 at See also:Bern, in See also:Switzerland. His See also:father was of patrician See also:family, and a See also:man of importance in his See also:canton, and his See also:mother was a See also:grand-daughter of the Dutch See also:admiral See also:Van See also:Tromp. From his mother and from Pfeffel, the See also:blind poet of See also:Colmar, he received a better See also:education than falls to the See also:lot of most boys, while the intimacy of his father with See also:Pestalozzi gave to his mind that See also:bent which it afterwards followed. In 1790 he entered the university of See also:Tubingen, where he distinguished himself by his rapid progress in legal studies. On See also:account of his See also:health he afterwards under-took a, walking tour in Switzerland and the adjoining portions of See also:France, See also:Swabia and See also:Tirol, visiting the hamlets and See also:farm-houses, mingling in the labours and occupations of the peasants and See also:mechanics, and partaking of their See also:rude fare and lodging. After the downfall of See also:Robespierre, he went to See also:Paris and remained there See also:long mouth to be assured of the See also:storm impending over his native See also:country. This he did his best to avert, but his warnings were disregarded, and Switzerland was lost before any efficient means could be taken for its safety. Fellenberg, who had hastily raised a See also:levy en masse, was proscribed; a See also:price was set upon his See also:head, and he was compelled to See also:fly into See also:Germany. Shortly afterwards, however, he was recalled by his countrymen, and sent on a See also:mission to Paris to remonstrate against the rapacity and See also:cruelty of the agents of the See also:French See also:republic. But in this and other See also:diplomatic offices which he held for a See also:short See also:time, he was See also:witness to so much corruption and intrigue that his mind revolted from the See also:idea of a See also:political See also:life, and he returned See also:home with the intention of devoting himself wholly to the education of the See also:young. With this See also:resolution he See also:purchased in 1799 the See also:estate of Hofwyl, near Bern, intending to make See also:agriculture the basis of a new See also:system which he had projected, for elevating the See also:lower and rightly training the higher orders of the See also:state, and See also:welding them together in a closer See also:union than had hitherto been deemed attainable. For some time he carried on his labours in See also:conjunction with Pestalozzi, but incompatibility of disposition soon induced them to See also:separate.

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scheme of Fellenberg at first excited a large amount of ridicule, but gradually it began to attract the See also:notice of See also:foreign countries; and pupils, some of them of the highest See also:rank, began to See also:flock to him from every country in See also:Europe, both for the purpose of studying agriculture and to profit by the high moral training which he associated with his educational system. For See also:forty-five years Fellenberg, assisted by his wife, continued his educational labours, and finally raised his institution to the highest point of prosperity and usefulness. He died on the 21st of See also:November 1844. See See also:Hamm, Fellenberg's Leben and Wirken (Bern, 1845) ; and Schoni, Der See also:Stifter von Hofwyl, Leben and Wirken Fellenberg's.

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