Dortmund, in Westphalia.

1797. Froebel is sent to Neuhof in the Thuringian Forest to learn
forestry.

1799. Froebel returns home; goes thence as student to Jena.

1801. He leaves Jena (having closed his career there with nine weeks'
imprisonment for debt), and soon afterwards begins to study
farming with a relative of his father's at Hildburghausen.

Dec. 29th.--Birth of Albertine Froebel (Madame Middendorff),
eldest daughter of Christian Froebel.

1802. Death of Froebel's father. Froebel becomes Actuary to the
Forestry Department of the Episcopal State of Bamberg.

Nov. 29th.--Birth of Johannes Arnold Barop, at Dortmund, in
Westphalia.

1803. Froebel goes to Bamberg, and takes part in the governmental land
survey, necessary upon the change of government, Bamberg now
passing to Bavaria.

1804. He takes, one after the other, two situations as secretary and
accountant of a large country estate, first, that of Herr von
Voeldersdorf in Baireuth, afterwards that of Herr von Dewitz in
Gross Milchow, Mecklenburg.

July 11th.--Birth of Emilie Froebel (Madame Barop), second
daughter of Christian Froebel.

1805. Death of Froebel's maternal uncle, Superintendent Hoffman.
Froebel determines to become an architect, and sets out for
Frankfurt to study there. Becomes, however, teacher in the Model
School at Frankfurt, on Gruner's invitation. Visits Pestalozzi,
at Yverdon, for a short time.

1807. He becomes tutor in the family of Herr von Holzhausen in the
suburbs of Frankfurt.

1808. He goes to Pestalozzi at Yverdon with his pupils.

1809. He draws up an account of Pestalozzi's work for the Princess of
Rudolstadt.

1810. Froebel returns to Frankfurt from Yverdon.

1811. He goes to the University of Goettingen.

1812. He proceeds thence to the University of Berlin.

1813. Froebel, Langethal, and Middendorff enlist in Luetzow's regiment
of Chasseurs, a volunteer corps enrolled to take part in the
resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Prussia.

1814. Jan. 5th.--Birth of Elise Froebel (Madame Schaffner), Christian's
youngest daughter.

After the Peace of Paris (May 30th, 1814) Froebel is appointed
assistant in the Mineralogical Museum of the University of
Berlin, and takes his post there in August.

1816