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Friedrich Froebel

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German educator who studied under Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi before founding, in 1837, the first kindergarten, a children's garden for three- and four-year-olds built on play, self-activity and a graded sequence of manipulative gifts. Prussia banned kindergartens the year after his death, but the model spread to Britain, the United States and beyond.

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Birth Year
1782 1
Death Year
1852 1
Birthplace
Oberweissbach, Thuringia 1
Nationality / Culture
German 1
Defining Contribution
Founded the kindergarten (1837), the first systematic early-childhood school, built on structured play, songs and a set of educational gifts (blocks, balls, geometric forms) meant to teach through self-directed activity. 1
Notable Work
The Education of Man (1826) 1
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Institutions Founded

Kindergarten, Institutions and Systems
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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Wikimedia FoundationInstitutions Founded: Kindergarten, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten, Creation of the kindergarten section, founder credit
Quote, Institutions Founded: Kindergarten, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten, Creation of the kindergarten section, founder credit
Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) opened a 'play and activity' institute in 1837, in Bad Blankenburg, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
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