Hampstead and the children included those of the reformer Frederic Hill. Their second Kindergarten opened in 1853 in Tavistock Place in St Pancras where the family now lived. Berthe began to train teachers at the kindergarten. The pupils at the school included Caroline Bishop who was to champion their views in England. Bertha held several lectures on the principle of the kindergarten at the home of von Marenholtz-Bülow. The Ronges moved back to Germany 10 years later, after founding kindergartens in London (1851), Manchester (1859) and Leeds (1860), and the Fröbel Society for the promotion of the Kindergarten System. In 1861 the Ronge family moved back to Germany to Wroclaw (now in Poland) and to Frankfurt in 1863 where Bertha died. Family Her sister Margarethe married Carl Schurz and founded the first kindergarten in the United States in Watertown, Wisconsin (1856). Works A Practical Guide to the English Kindergarten, with Johannes Ronge (London, 1855) Notes Sources External links Fröbel Educational Institute Manuscript for "Johannes Ronge" poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (subscription required) Heads of schools in Germany Heads of schools in England German Christian religious leaders 1818 births 1863 deaths German emigrants to England