She died at Blankenburg in May 1839.
[117] The expected dowry was never forthcoming, which made matters
harder.
[118] Christian had already assisted his brother at Griesheim, and
before that, to the utmost of his power. The three daughters were (1)
Albertine, born 29th December, 1801, afterwards married Middendorff; (2)
Emilie, born 11th July, 1804, married Barop, died 18th August, 1860, at
Keilhau; (3) Elise, born 5th January, 1814, married Dr. Siegfried
Schaffner, one of the Keilhau colleagues, later on.
[119] Johannes Arnold Barop, Middendorff's nephew, was born at Dortmund,
29th November, 1802. He afterwards became proprietor and principal of
Keilhau.
[120] March 1828.
[121] This excellent man was drowned in the Saale while bathing, soon
after this letter was written.
[122] He always regarded himself as perfectly tolerant.
[123] Froebel moved from Griesheim to Keilhau in 1817.
[124] In 1820.
[125] It was in 1828 that Barop formally and definitely joined the
Froebel community.
[126] The long turmoil of the Napoleonic wars, the outcome of the French
Revolution, ceased in 1815; and the minds of the students and the other
youths of the country, set free from this terrible struggle for liberty,
turned towards the reformation of their own country.
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