Greiner - Fröbel family information and history

Our Greiner and Fröbel ancestors have a very interesting history. We connect into the Fröbel family through Johanna Sophie Dorothea Fröbel who married Johann Gotthelf Greiner who was famous in Europe for making porcelain. This picture is of their five sons, also noted porcelain makers:

The two on the left in the picture are our 4th great grandparents. The daughter of  Daniel, on the far left in the picture, was Johannette Friedericke Sophie Greiner. She married her first cousin, Christian Friedrich Traugott Greiner, on 5 Dec 1816 in Steinheid, Sachsen-Meiningen, Thuringen, Germany. He was the son of  Johann Friedemann Greiner, second from the left in the picture. One of the 10 children of the marriage of the two first cousins, Christian and Johannette, was Mathilde Clotilda Adelheida Greiner. She married Georg Heinrich Theodor Libermann on 5 Dec 1848 in Großbreitenbach, Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Thüringen, Germany. Mathilda (Greiner) Liebermann is our 2nd gg mother.

The mother of the 5 sons, Johanna Sophie Dorothea Fröbel who married Johann Gotthelf Greiner, had a brother named Johann Jakob Fröbel (born 28 Jan 1730 in Neuhaus Am Rennweg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thuringen, Germany). He was a Lutheran pastor and married Jakobine Eleonore Friderika Hoffmann (b. 24 Mar 1744 in Singen, Thüringen, Germany) on 22 May 1764 in Elxleben, Ilm-Kreis, Thüringen, Germany. Their youngest of 6 children was Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (b. 21 Apr 1782 in Oberweißbach, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thüringen, Germany.) Friedrich developed the first kindergarden! Amazing!!! He loved children, did not like the firm style of German schooling of his day, and felt children should laugh and play in a garden of flowers, trees, birds and sunshine. Here is a timeline of his life:
http://www.froebelweb.org/webline.html

This website is for the Oberweissbach Church where Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was baptized:
http://www.ozpod.com/gallery/church.html  There is a link to more information about him.

Johannes Froebel-Parker, who also descends from Friedrich wrote "a book for children which tells how kindergarten began and what it was meant to be." The Vassel Family Organization financed the purchase of this precious book which you can enjoy at the home of Mary Vassel Hill in American Fork, Utah.
http://www.firstkindergarten.com/bios.html

Here is a link to the autobiography of Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel on google books:
http://tinyurl.com/3buvd5g
How exciting it is to discover more about the lives of these wonderful ancestors!