Luise Froebel
Luise Froebel (born April 15, 1815 in Osterode am Harz , † January 4, 1900 in Hamburg ) was a German kindergarten teacher and the second wife of Friedrich Froebel .
Live and act
Wilhelmine Friederike Luise was the youngest of six children of the leather manufacturer Johann Friedrich Levin and his wife Johanne Dorothee Marie Levin, b. Levin. She attended a private school and after graduation supported her mother in housekeeping. For several years she also ran the household of two of her brothers. In 1845 Louise Levin went to Friedrich Fröbel in Keilhau to train as a kindergarten teacher at his General German Educational Institute . She then worked as a private tutor in the house of the noble von Cossel family in Rendsburg , but soon went to Friedrich Fröbel in Liebenstein , who had opened an educational institution in the nearby Marienthaler Schlösschen . The pedagogue hired Louise Levin as head of his institution.
On June 9, 1851 Luise Levin and Friedrich Froebel married. The teacher died the following year. The widow moved to Hamburg in 1854. There she founded Hamburg's first private kindergarten in 1860, taught young girls and women in Friedrich Fröbel's pedagogy, took care of her husband's estate and published his letters. Through her rich correspondence, which extended as far as the USA and Russia, she also had an international impact on kindergarten efforts . In December 1884 she suggested the establishment of the first kindergarten for the "children of the poor and poor" in Hamburg St. Georg . In 1891 she was made an honorary member of the German Froebel Association .
She died on January 4, 1900 in the Eichelhain private sanatorium in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . Luise Froebel was buried six days later at her husband's side in the Schweina mountain cemetery . A small plaque at the foot of the grave plinth reminds of the pedagogue. In the specialist literature, Louise was wrongly naturalized in relation to the first name instead of Luise.
literature
- Kurt Schroecke: Louise Froebel. Froebel's second wife . Blankenburg 1912.
- Manfred Berger : Women in the history of kindergarten. A manual . Frankfurt / Main 1995, pp. 40-44.
- Walter Thorun: Louise Froebel-Levin in Hamburg . In: the same (ed.): The Froebel movement in Hamburg , Kankelau 1997, pp. 82–85.
- Maritta Delon: Friedrich Froebel's wives and their influence on the work of the educator . Munich 2007 (unpublished diploma thesis).
- Iris Groschek: Froebel, Friederike Wilhelmine Louise . In: Hamburg biography . Vol. 5, Göttingen 2010, pp. 122–123.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Berger 1995, p. 43
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Froebel, Luise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German kindergarten teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osterode am Harz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1900 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |