在他开放农场办学校之前;写了《隐士的黄昏》(Die Abendstunde eines Einsiedlers,1780年), 接下来又完成了代表作,《林哈德和葛笃德(德语:Lienhard und Gertrud)》(1781年),描述一个善良而专心的女人所作渐进的改革,先是一家,然后是全村。这本书在德国广受欢迎,裴斯泰洛齐的名字不再默默无闻。
Biber, George Eduard. Henry Pestalozzi and his Plan of Education. Orig. pub. London: John Souter, School Library, 1831. Repub. ISBN 1-85506-272-0. Among the earliest and probably the most influential 19th-century account of Pestalozzi's work in English, this was widely read in America (for instance, by Bronson Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson) and in England. Contains translated excerpts from many of Pestalozzi's works.
Silber, Kate. Pestalozzi: The Man and his Work. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. ISBN 0-7100-2118-6. Written by a German-speaking lifelong Pestalozzi scholar, this remains the most recent complete biography in English.