His wife grew alarmingly ill, and the physicians prescribed complete
absence from the sharp Swiss mountain air. Froebel asked to be permitted
to resign his post, that he might retire to Berlin. The Willisau
Institution, although outwardly flourishing, was limited more and more
narrowly by the bigotry of the priests, and must evidently now be soon
given up, since the Government had passed into the hands of the Jesuit
party. Langethal and Ferdinand Froebel were nominated Directors of
Burgdorf.[141] Middendorff rejoined his family at Keilhau. Later on,
Langethal split off from the community and accepted the direction
of a girls' school in Bern (that school which, after Langethal, the
well-known Froehlich conducted); but Froebel never forgave him this step.
Ferdinand Froebel remained, till his sudden and early death, Director of
the Orphanage at Burgdorf. A public funeral, such as has never found its
equal at Burgdorf, bore witness to the amount of his great labours, and
to the general appreciation of their value.
When Friedrich Froebel came back from Berlin, the idea of an institution
for the education of little children had fully taken shape in his mind.
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