is wife, and Langethal undertake the foundation of the
Orphanage for Bern, in Burgdorf. Middendorff and Elise Froebel go
from Keilhau to Willisau and join Ferdinand Froebel there.
Froebel writes "The New Year 1836 demands a Renewal of Life."

1836. Froebel and his wife leave Burgdorf for Berlin. Ferdinand Froebel
and Langethal take over the direction of the Orphanage.

1837. Opening of the first Kindergarten in Blankenburg.

1838. Commencement of Froebel's _Sunday Journal_.

1839. Froebel and Middendorff go to Dresden. Death of Madame Froebel.

1840. Guttenberg Festival (400th anniversary of the invention of
printing). Opening of the Universal German Kindergarten at
Blankenburg, as a joint-stock company. Froebel and Middendorff in
the following years make several journeys from Keilhau to various
parts of Germany endeavouring to promote the erection of
Kindergartens.

1848. General Congress of Teachers, called by Froebel, at Rudolstadt.
Second journey of Froebel to Dresden in the autumn.

1849. Froebel settles at Liebenstein intending to train Kindergarten
teachers there. Work at Hamburg, first by Middendorff, then by
Froebel.

1850. Froebel returns to Liebenstein. Through the influence of Madame
von Marenholtz-Buelow he receives the neighbouring country seat of
Marienthal from the Grand Duke of Weimar for the purposes of his
Training College. Foundation of a new _Weekly Journal of
Education_ by Froebel, edited by Lange. Marriage of Elise Froebel
to Dr. Siegfried Schaffner.

1851. Jan. 9th.--Death of Christian Ludwig Froebel.

July.--Second marriage of Froebel, with Luise Levin. First
appearance of the _Journal for Friedrich Froebel's Educational
Aims_.

1852. April.--Froebel is called to join the Educational Congress at
Gotha, under the presidency of Theodor Hoffman.

June 21.--_Death of Froebel._ His educational establishment at
Marienthal is removed to Keilhau, under the superintendence of
Middendorff. Madame Luise Froebel also assists to train students
in the methods of the Kindergarten at Keilhau.

1853. Middendorff enthusiastically received at the Congress at
Salzungen, when addressing it on the Froebelian methods.

Nov. 27th.--Death of Middendorff. Madame Luise Froebel, for a
time, directs Keilh