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Francis Joseph Nicholas Neef
1770-01-01 – 1854-01-01
Life & Legacy
Francis Joseph Nicholas Neef also Franz Joseph Nikolaus Näef known mainly as Joseph Neef (6 December 1770 – 8 April 1854) was an educational reformer and pedagogue, who founded the first Pestalozzian school in the United States and published the first book in English, Sketch of a Plan and Method of Education (1808), on the teaching method there. He began schools in Philadelphia, Delaware (1813), Kentucky (until 1826) and then at New Harmony, Indiana, along with Robert Owen.
Occupation & Career
writer, educator, pedagogue
Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q55720332 — wikidata View source
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