The First Kindergarten
(Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel & Baroness Bertha Marie von Marenholtz-Buelow)
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Many times, however, little Bertha Maria preferred to read all by herself. She loved her books very much and would read them in the garden sitting on a stone wall underneath the branches of a pear tree. Daneben liebte es die kleine Bertha Maria, allein im Garten auf der Steinmauer unter dem Geaest eines Birnbaumes zu lesen. En cambio muchas veces la pequeña Bertha María prefería leer por si misma. A ella le fascinaba leer sus libros por eso iba al jardín y se sentaba en un muro de piedra debajo de las ramas de un árbol de pera.
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Froebel-Parker's book about Friedrich Froebel and Baroness Bertha von Marenholtz-Buelow is the third in his "Ahnentafel" series. It was preceded by "Friedrich and the First Kindergarten" and "Grandma Harrington and the Queen's Wardrobe." In "The First Kindergarten: Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel & Baroness Bertha Marie von Marenholtz-Buelow" the author expands the story of the founding of Kindergarten to include Friedrich Froebel's tireless 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 historical novel, which includes much biographical information, Froebel-Parker joins through literature the lives and contributions of two of the world's greatest proponents of children's education which are still relevant today.
About the Author
Froebel-Parker continues a centuries-long tradition of Froebel nephews and nieces who have dedicated themselves to their uncle's philosophy and approach to education. The author's grandparents, great grandmother and great aunts bequeathed him with the legacy of a vivid oral tradition about Friedrich and his entire extended family. The Froebels, with Merovingian Frankish ties, had lived since the 15th century in the Thuringian Holy Roman Empire Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Their deep origins were in the area of the ancient Netherlands, as family memoirs indicate. Froebel-Parker began visiting Froebel sites in Thuringia even during the years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR). These connections and friendships continue and are influences in his account of the founding of the First Kindergarten.