[Footnote 119]: Johannes Arnold Barop, Middendorff's nephew, was born at Dortmund, 29th November, 1802. He afterwards became proprietor and principal of Keilhau.
[Footnote 120]: March 1828.
[Footnote 121]: This excellent man was drowned in the Saale while bathing, soon after this letter was written.
[Footnote 122]: He always regarded himself as perfectly tolerant.
[Footnote 123]: Froebel moved from Griesheim to Keilhau in 1817.
[Footnote 124]: In 1820.
[Footnote 125]: It was in 1828 that Barop formally and definitely joined the Froebel community.
[Footnote 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. Many associations were formed: perhaps here and there wild talk was indulged in. The Government grew alarmed, and though the students had invariably acted with perfect legality, all their associations were dispersed and forbidden.
[Footnote 127]: Christian Froebel and his wife.
[Footnote 128]: This was 1827-29.