Louise Pollock

Background

Born Louise Caroline Frederica Augusta Victoria Wilhelmina von Pless (Anglicized as Plessner), she married in 1850 in Dresden to George Henry Pollock, who was born in Massachusetts in 1829.

Career

She is often stated to have opened the first kindergarten in America, but that seminal event actually took place in the home of Margarethe Meyer-Schurz in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1854. Pollock did open the first kindergarten in West Newton, Massachusetts, in 1863 or 1864, other schools were modeled after her later National Kindergarten and Normal School in Washington, District of Columbia, and she wrote and translated articles, song books, and education manuals about kindergartens which were important to the advancement of the kindergarten movement. and abroad. Pollock"s husband George Henry Pollock was a prosperous Washington District of Columbia

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