Baroness Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow (born 5 March 1810 in
Brunswick; died 9 January 1893 in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
) was a German noblewoman and educator noted for her work in spreading the kindergarten concept through Europe.
Biography
Bertha was daughter of baron Georg
von Bülow-Wendhausen and countess Amalie Marie von
Wartensleben. She married baron Wilhelm von Marenholtz, whom she left in 1847 without getting divorced.
She was attracted by the ideas of
Friedrich Fröbel
Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (; 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique need ...
, whom she met in 1850. She became his disciple and devoted her life to founding
kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...
s in Germany and many other European countries.
Works
* ''Beiträge zum Verständnis Friedrich Fröbels'' (Contributions to understanding Friedrich Fröbel; 1876)
She wrote a number of pamphlets on the kindergarten, several of which have been translated into English.
Notes
References
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Further reading
* Goldschmidt, “Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow,” No. 239, in the Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Vorträge (Hamburg, 1896).
External links
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1810 births
1893 deaths
German educational theorists
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