Julie Traberth

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Julie Traberth (born September 6, 1817 in Eisenach , † January 21, 1887 in Eisenach) was a German Froebel kindergarten teacher .

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Julie Charlotte Caroline Christine was the 12th child of the chief bailiff Christian Friedrich Traberth and his wife Charlotte, geb. Gille. Since the father died early, the gifted girl was unable to complete an advanced education for financial reasons. Julie Trabeth would have loved to become a teacher. But she had to support the sick mother, with whom she had a close relationship all her life, in housekeeping and, in addition, to help out in other households in order to supplement the household budget. In 1847 she took on a job as an assistant in a kindergarten in Eisenach, which was run by Dr. May. Director of the municipal daughter school, founded and directed. In the same year she met Friedrich Froebel, who gave a lecture in her hometown about kindergarten and its toys and activities . Two years later, Julie Traberth completed a teaching course with the kindergarten teacher:

With heavy sacrifices, Julie now enables her first stay at Froebel's, admittedly limited to the holidays ... but finds ways and means to use her vacation five more times in the same way ... And how enthusiastic, lifted and strengthened her every time Intercourse with the master and his students .

After the death of Dr. May Julie Trabert took over the management of the kindergarten, which u. a. Grand Duchess Sophie visited. In addition, she taught young girls and women the pedagogy of Friedrich Froebel, with whom she was in close correspondence until his death.

She was one of the founders of the specialist magazine Kindergarten (founded in 1860) and the General Froebel Association (founded in 1863), from which today's Pestalozzi-Froebel Association emerged , and in 1877 she was involved in the establishment of an elementary kindergarten in Eisenach. Together with Eleonore Heerwart and Auguste Möder , she planned to set up a kindergarten teachers' seminar in Eisenach, which unfortunately did not succeed. When kindergartens were banned in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1851, the collapse of the kindergarten movement threatened. In liberal Eisenach, Julie Traberth was able to help ensure that the idea of ​​the kindergarten was not forgotten.

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literature

  • Manfred Berger : Women in the history of the kindergarten, Frankfurt / Main 1995, pp. 184–1888.
  • Manfred Berger / Heinrich Weigel: Traberth, Julie, in: Felicitas Marwinski (Ed.): Paths of life in Thuringia. Third collection, Weimar 2006, pp. 330–334.
  • Lina Morgenstern : The women of the 19th century. Second episode, Berlin 1889, pp. 340-344.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morgenstern 1889, p. 342
  2. ↑ http://www.bbf.dipf.de/edUNGEN/froebel/fb1851-07-06-03.html
  3. ↑ Berger 2006, p. 334
personal data
SURNAME Traberth, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kindergarten teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1887
Place of death Eisenach