Charles Froebel

Charles Froebel was a German scientist and philosopher who moved to the United States. A member of the New York Academy of Sciences, he contributed assiduously to high-profile popular science journals.The grandson of the more famous Friedrich Fröbel, the founder of Kindergarten, his family was part of that wave of German intellectuals who emigrated to America in the mid-19th century (the so-called "Forty-Eighters"), who brought a wave of natural philosophy and liberalism to the American scientific landscape.