Download or read book Pestalozzi's Leonard and Gertrude written by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1891. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educational reformer, whose theories laid the foundation of modern elementary education. His masterpiece, Leonard and Gertrude, is an account of the gradual reformation, first of a household, and then of a whole village, by the efforts of a good and devoted woman.