Elizabeth P. Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (born May 16, 1804 in Billerica , Massachusetts , † January 3, 1894 ) was an American educator and writer who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States of America in 1860 .
biography
She belonged to the neo-idealist movement of the American transcendentalists . As the first publisher in the United States, she published the only issue of a transcendentalist journal, the Estetic Papers , in 1849 , in which she published, among other essays, Henry David Thoreau's The Resistance to Civil Government .
1834-1835 she taught at Amos Bronson Alcotts experimental Temple School in Boston . In 1839 she opened the West Street bookstore, which quickly became a meeting place for the intellectuals in Boston. In addition to translations by Margaret Fuller , she published some books by Nathaniel Hawthorne . She was also the managing director of The Dial , the monthly magazine of the transcendentalists, in which she published herself.
In her educational work she was influenced by the German pedagogue Friedrich Froebel .
Fonts
- Crimes of the House of Austria (1852)
- Egotheism, the Atheism of To-Day (1858)
- Kindergarten Culture (1870)
- Kindergarten in Italy (1872)
- Reminiscences of Dr. Channing (1880)
- Letters to Kindergarteners (1886)
Web links
- Elizabeth Peabody (Ed.): Ethic Papers , Boston (The Editor) 1849 , on the Internet Archive .
- Elizabeth P. Peabody at www.transcendentalists.com
literature
Megan Marshall: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism , Boston (Houghton Mifflin Company) 2005. ISBN 978-0-618-71169-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ From 1866 published under the title Civil Disobedience .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peabody, Elizabeth P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Billerica , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1894 |