Margarethe meyer-schurz biography

German-born American who inspired the kindergarten movement in the U.S. Born Margarethe Meyer on August 27, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany; died in New York City on March 15, 1876, of complications after the birth of her fifth child; daughter of Heinrich Meyer (a merchant-manufacturer); married Carl Schurz (1829–1906, an army officer and politician), on July 6, 1852; children: Agathe Schurz (b.

1853); Marianne Schurz; Carl Lincoln Schurz; Herbert Schurz; and a daughter who died in infancy.

Born on August 27, 1833, Margarethe Meyer grew up in Hamburg, Germany, with her older sister and two older brothers.

Credited with establishing the first kindergarten in the United States, Margarethe Meyer Schurz was born on August 27, , in Hamburg, Germany, the youngest.

Credited with establishing the first kindergarten in the United States, Margarethe Meyer Schurz was born on August 27, , in Hamburg, Germany, the youngest.

Margarethe Meyer Schurz was born in Hamburg, Germany.

Margarethe Meyer-Schurz was a German-American woman who opened the first German-language kindergarten in the United States at Watertown, Wisconsin.

Margarethe Meyer was born in Hamburg in to a prominent family that encouraged her to pursue the arts and education.

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Her parents passed on their interest in education, music and liberal political thought to their daughter. At age 16, Margarethe attended lectures by the founder of kindergarten philosophy, Friedrich Froebel, and became a disciple of this educational approach.

Other adherents to the kindergarten movement (the German kindergarten translates