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  1. Friedrich Fröbel - Wikipedia

    He designed the educational play materials known as Froebel Gifts, or Fröbelgaben, which included geometric building blocks and pattern activity blocks. A book entitled Inventing …

  2. Friedrich Froebel | German Educator & Founder of Kindergarten

    Friedrich Froebel was a German educator who was the founder of the kindergarten and one of the most influential educational reformers of the 19th century. Froebel was the fifth child in a …

  3. An introduction to Friedrich Froebel - The Voice of Early Childhood

    Friedrich Froebel was a German educator who lived from 1782 to 1852 and became one of the most significant early childhood pioneers (Tovey, 2017).

  4. Froebel, Friedrich (1782–1852) - Encyclopedia.com

    The German educator Friedrich Froebel is significant for developing an Idealist philosophy of early childhood education and establishing the kindergarten, a school for four-and five-year-old …

  5. Friedrich Froebel created Kindergarten

    Friedrich Froebel introduced the concept of gardens for children, where they could participate in all aspects of growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious, seasonal produce. As educational …

  6. Friedrich Fröbel Museum - Life and Works

    After his vocational training as a topographic surveyor, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782–1852), son of a thuringian pastor, became first a private secretary and then a tutor in …

  7. Friedrich Froebel (Fröbel) - Infed.org

    Aug 8, 2025 · Friedrich Froebel, the German educationalist, is best known as the originator of the ‘kindergarten system’. By all accounts he had a difficult childhood. His mother died when he …

  8. Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel - New World Encyclopedia

    Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel) (April 21, 1782 – June 21, 1852) was a German educator, famous for his work in children's education, particularly the invention of the …

  9. - Fröbel Decade

    Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782–1852) is considered the father of the kindergarten movement. Fröbel received worldwide recognition through the grounding of the first …

  10. Education - Froebel, Kindergarten, Movement | Britannica

    Dec 16, 2025 · Education - Froebel, Kindergarten, Movement: Next to Pestalozzi, perhaps the most gifted of early 19th-century educators was Froebel, the founder of the kindergarten …