Fröbel, Friedrich (1782–1852)
Article by Helmut Heiland In his main work entitled Die Menschenerziehung [On the education of man, (1826)], Fröbel defined his pedagogical principles, which owe much to neo-humanist educational theory, in the following words: The divine, God, is omnipresent; His influence governs all things […] which have their being only by reason of the divine principle […]