Julius Fröbel

Carl Ferdinand Julius Fröbel (16 July 1805 – 7 November 1893) was a German geologist and mineralogist, journalist, and democratic revolutionary already during the Vormärz era.

He attended the educational institute of his uncle Friedrich Fröbel, the founder of the kindergarten system, and continued his studies of natural sciences at the universities of Jena, Munich, and Berlin.

[citation needed] Upon the reactionary Züriputsch in 1839, he joined the radical party, and edited Der schweizerische Republikaner (The Swiss Republican) for them.

[citation needed] On the dissolution of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1849, he emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of a German-language newspaper, lectured in New York City, and was a member of the law firm of Zitz, Kapp & Fröbel for a time.

[3] After the death of his first wife, he secondly married Karolina (1821–1888), a daughter of the former Greek prime minister Count Josef Ludwig von Armansperg.