William Nicholas Hailmann (1836-1920) was a leading exponent of the doctrine of Froebel in early childhood education. He was the director of the German-American Academies (1865-73) and Milwaukee (1873-78) and the German-American Seminary in Detroit (1878-83), served as superintendent of schools in Dayton, Ohio (1898-1903), was the head of the department of psychology at the Chicago Normal School (1904-08), and professor of history and education at the Cleveland Normal Training School (1909-14). He relocated to California to teach at Broadoaks Kindergarten Normal School (1914-20), and later served as the first chairman of the kindergarten section of the National Educational Association. He also organized the Kindergarten-Primary Council of the West. Hailmann's books include Outlines of a system of objective teaching (1867) and Kindergarten culture in the family and kindergarten (1872). He also translated, with a commentary, Froebel's education of man (1887), and edited Erziehungsblätter (1870-73) and Kindergarten messenger and new education (1876-83). The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, workbooks, pamphlets, books, other printed materials, memorabilia, photographs, and educational materials and projects by and about William Nicholas Hailmann and/or related to Froebel-method schools, or kindergartens.

William Nicholas Hailmann was born on October 20, 1836 at Glarus, Switzerland; at 13 he entered the polytechnic division of the Cantonal College at Zurich; moved in 1852 to Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught modern languages at Henry College, and modern languages and natural sciences at Louisville high schools (1856-65); visited Zurich in 1860 to study kindergartens and primary education; directed the German-American Academies in Louisville (1865-73) and Milwaukee (1873-78) and the German-American Seminary in Detroit (1878-83); served as superintendent of schools in Dayton, Ohio (1898-1903), head of the department of psychology at the Chicago Normal School (1904-08), and professor of history and education at the Cleveland Normal Training School (1909-14); professor at Broadoaks Kindergarten Normal School in Pasadena, California (1914-20); was a leading exponent of the doctrine of Froebel, and translated with a commentary Froebel's education of man (1887); Hailmann's other books include Outlines of a system of objective teaching (1867) and Kindergarten culture in the family and kindergarten (1872); edited Erziehungsblätter (1870-73) and Kindergarten messenger and new education (1876-83); served as the first chairman of the kindergarten section of the National Educational Association, and organized the Kindergarten-Primary Council of the West; he died on May 13, 1920 in Pasadena, California.

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