Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster

1869–1966 (age 97)

Biography

Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, born in 1869, taught with a moral clarity that inspired generations, insisting that education should summon conscience as well as intellect.

His pacifist voice and resistance to tyranny carried him through exile, and when he returned, the Kilchberg cemetery became the peaceful ground where his concerns for humanity are remembered.

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