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 Keilhau.

1854.  Madame Luise Froebel goes in the spring to Dresden, to assist Dr.
       Marquart in his Kindergarten and training establishment for
       Kindergarten teachers.  Madame Marquart had been a pupil of
       Froebel.  Keilhau ceases to be a training school for Kindergarten
       teachers.

In the autumn Madame Luise Froebel accepts the directorship of the Public Free Kindergarten in Hamburg, and trains students there. (She is still actively employed at Hamburg in the cause of the Kindergarten; 1886.)

First introduction of the Kindergarten system into England by Miss Praetorius, who founds a Kindergarten at Fitzroy Square.  Madame von Marenholtz Buelow, who was the support of Froebel’s latest years, whose influence with the Grand Duke of Weimar procured him Marienthal, and whose whole leisure and power was devoted to his service, and to the interpretation of his ideas, comes to England to lecture and write in support of the cause of the Kindergarten.  Publishes a pamphlet on “Infant Gardens,” in English.

       Madame Ronge introduces the Kindergarten system at Manchester;
       and shortly afterwards the Manchester Kindergarten Association is
       founded.

1859.  Miss Eleonore Heerwart (pupil of Middendorff and Madame Luise
       Froebel), and the Baroness Adele von Portugall (pupil of Madame
       von Marenholtz-Buelow and of Madame Schrader, the great niece of
       Froebel), come to England, and are both engaged at Manchester as
       Kindergarten teachers, but not in the same establishment.