Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow

The First Kindergarten

The story of the founding of Kindergarten by Friedrich Froebel and the tireless work of his friend and advocate, Baroness von Marenholtz-Buelow.

Opening the doors of cultural luminaries and European nobility to Froebel’s ideas, the noblewoman from the ancient von Buelow family is often dubbed "the mother of Kindergarten" just as Froebel is referred to as "the father of Kindergarten."

In this picture book for children, the author joins through literature the lives and contributions of two of the world’s greatest proponents of children’s education, which are still relevant today.

via The First Kindergarten – J (Johannes) Froebel-Parker : AuthorHouse.

New Froebel Book

In 1900 Denton Jacques Snider wrote about Friedrich (Frederick) Froebel and his life experiences which led to the founding of the first kindergarten. Over a century later, a Froebel family member and author of two children’s books about Froebel and kindergarten, expands the publication designed for readers in the Victorian age to make it a timeless reference.

The Life of Frederick Froebel: Founder of Kindergarten by Denton Jacques Snider (1900): Edited and Annotated with Illustrations by J (Johannes) Froebel Parker

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infed.org | Friedrich Froebel (Fröbel)

The purpose of education is to encourage and guide man as a conscious, thinking and perceiving being in such a way that he becomes a pure and perfect representation of that divine inner law through his own personal choice; education must show him the ways and meanings of attaining that goal. (Friedrich Froebel 1826 Die Nenschenerziehung, pp. 2).

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