The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Burgdorf
(brk´dôrf) (KEY) , Fr. Berthoud, town (1990 est. pop. 15,373), NW Switzerland, on the Emme River. It is a textile-manufacturing and cheese-trading town. There is a 12th-century castle in which J. H. Pestalozzi, the educational reformer, held (17991804) his first school.