ABSTRACT
Friedrich Frobel is not an easy reading. This is true not only due to his complicated writing style but also because his kindergarten pedagogy was part of, and, for him, a logically necessary extension of his metaphysical-religious worldview. Anthropology, general pedagogical theory, school pedagogy, and at the end, kindergarten pedagogy, it all derived from this specific view of the world, humankind, and the human being: the law of the sphere. Frobel is often called a romanticist. Romanticism was an ongoing, multi-layered, regionally, and chronologically differentiated movement. Romanticism further rejected the sober reality and was enthusiastic about the exotic and the incomprehensible. Interestingly, Frobel was initially understood in such a way by the German and international kindergarten movement. His pedagogical concept was seen as committed to the economic, intellectual, and cultural progress of humanity. For Frobel, kindergarten was never a place to only take care of young children or to support their learning.
