kindergärtner

See also: Kindergärtner and kindergartner

English

Noun

kindergärtner (plural kindergärtners)

1. Alternative spelling of kindergartner (“person who teaches at a kindergarten”).
   • 1886, Angeline Brooks, “The Theory of [Friedrich] Fröbel’s Kindergarten System”, in The Kindergarten and the School, Springfield, Mass.: Milton Bradley Co., page 51:

     A few years ago Miss Blow, of St. Louis, took up, with the kindergärtners of that city, a study of “The Mother Play and Nursery Songs” in the German.

   • 1888, “Education in the United States. Abstract of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1884–85.”, in A[grippa] N[elson] Bell, T. P. Corbally, and Harry Kent Bell, editors, The Sanitarian, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Preservation of Health, Mental and Physical Culture, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: A. N. Bell, page 111:

     The growing demand for kindergärten teachers causes a rapid increase in the number of training schools. Several public normal schools have added a class or department for training kindergärtners.

   • 1895, Wichard Lange, translated by Josephine Jarvis, “Preface”, in Friedrich Froebel’s Pedagogics of the Kindergarten or, His Ideas Concerning the Play and Playthings of the Child (International Education Series), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page xii:

     This gift will certainly be welcome not only to the teachers in training schools for kindergärtners and children’s nurses, but also to all who take an interest in Friedrich Froebel’s endeavors.

   • 1897 October, Charles H. May, “[Abstracts from Current American and English Ophthlmological^[sic] Literature.] The Effect of Kindergarten Work on the Eyesight of the Children. Wood, Casey A., […]”, in Annals of Ophthalmology, volume VI, number 4, page 838:

     The writer gives the results of several years of investigation of the methods employed by kindergärtners in their relation to the eyesight of children.

References

• “kindergärtner, variant of kindergartener, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.