Anna Pestalozzi
Anna Pestalozzi (born Anna Schulthess ; born August 9, 1738 in Zurich ; † December 17, 1815 in Yverdon-les-Bains ) ran the housekeeping of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 's children's homes , looked after the children as a housemother and was married to Pestalozzi.
Anna's father Hans Jakob Schulthess (1711–1789) was a confectioner and druggist and later became the caretaker of the saffron guild in Zurich. She married Pestalozzi in September 1769 in Gebenstorf , against the will of their parents. His revolutionary ideas led the family to bankruptcy shortly after the wedding. In order to carry out his vision of an agricultural educational institution combined with a cotton industry, Pestalozzi borrowed money from over sixty creditors. Anna also had her parents pay her share of the inheritance. Anna looked after the 37 children that Pestalozzi took into his house on her own. In 1780 Pestalozzi had used the money he had borrowed and his wife's assets, and the attempt was broken off.
In 1770 their first and only child, Hans Jakob, was born. Hans Jakob suffered from epilepsy , for which Anna blamed herself. She found relaxation mainly in music, literature, handicrafts and card games with her friends. In addition, Anna shared her husband's life and, as a housemother, ran his orphanages and children's homes in Stans and Burgdorf . Her way of dealing with the children inspired Pestalozzi's pedagogical ideas.
When Pestalozzi took over the institute in Yverdon, Anna was already over sixty and in bad health. Nevertheless, she again took over the housekeeping of the educational institution and mothered the children entrusted to Pestalozzi. She died in 1815 of a cough disease.
literature
- Maya Widmer: Pestalozzi, Anna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Dagmar Schifferli: Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess 1738–1815. Your life with Heinrich Pestalozzi . Pendo Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85842-500-1 .
- Kate Silber: Anna Pestalozzi Schulthess and the women around Pestalozzi. Berlin 1932.
Web links
- Literature by and about Anna Pestalozzi in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pestalozzi, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife Johann Heinrich Pestalozzis |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1815 |
| Place of death | Yverdon-les-Bains |