A series of compulsory reincarnations?

Allan Kardec is the pseudonym of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, (1804-1869), who is known today as the systematizer of Spiritism.

Allan Kardec was a disciple and collaborator of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and a teacher in courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physiology, comparative anatomy and French in Paris. For one of his research papers, he was inducted in 1831 into the Royal Academy of Arts. He organized and taught free courses for the underprivileged.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
( 1746 – 1827 )

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 –1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German and French speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote novels explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto "Learning by head, hand and heart" is still a key principle in successful 21st century schools. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy still prevailing in 18th century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.