FELLENBERG, PHILIPP EMANUEL VON 1844 ), Swiss educationist, was born on June 27, 1771 at Bern, in Switzerland. He purchased in 1799 the estate of Hofwyl, near Bern, intending to make agriculture the basis of a new system which he had projected, for elevating the lower and rightly train ing the higher orders of the State, and welding them together in a closer union than had hitherto been deemed attainable. For some time he carried on his labours in conjunction with Pestalozzi, but incompatibility of disposition soon induced them to separate. Fel lenberg's scheme at first excited a large amount of ridicule, but gradually pupils came to him from every country in Europe, both for the purpose of studying agriculture and to profit by the high moral training which he associated with his educational system. Fellenberg died on Nov. 21, 1844 See W. von Hamm, E. Fellenberg's Leben and Wirken (Bern, 1845) ; and F. R. Schoeni, Der Stifter von Hofwyl, Leben and Wirken Fellenberg's (Schaffhausen, 1874) .