These pages contain links to sites that contain material, mainly in English, about the authors that Froebel read.
A principal source for the information about whom Froebel read is his Autobiography
Froebel wrote in his Autobiography of the influence of Jean Paul's writing on education upon him and the concurrence of their views.
Froebel said of Novalis' 'Works' that it 'lay before me the most secret emotions, perceptions and intentions of my inmost soul, clear, open and vivid'. Autobiography (1903) p 46.
A Naturephilosopher and Idealist, his philosophy contained a dialectic and an emphasis on polarities and contradictions. Another figure Froebel mentions in his Autobiography but complicated by the fact that he read Schelling's book on the Pantheist, Giordano Bruno who was burnt at the stake in 1600.
Froebel's Autobiography contains a letter from him to Krause, a philosopher who coined the term 'panentheism'
Poet and nationalist mentioned in Froebel's Autobiography