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Sources edit
This biography is for the most part unreferenced. The only mention of Bertha Ronge's name in the sources is at http://www.hermannmonument.com/German_Americans.html and I think that is erroneously spelled. It should be Bertha Ronge. After undoing an elaborate attempt to obfuscate Johannes Ronge's name, I imagine the same thing is happening here. The material quoted does seem accurate, but no telling where it comes from. Johannes Ronge's page was suffering from the same problem, but fortunately there was a verifiable reference for that, and I think it is moving on better documented, if less verbose, course now. This page is better than nothing, but I will correct spelling of Johannes' name based on verifiable refs. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 14:38, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I have moved this page to the right name. I did find another English reference with it correctly spelled and added it to the references for the article. There is one English page that gets the name wrong. The German Wikipedia article exhibits plenty of references with the right name. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:06, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I removed a link (http://www.hermannmonument.com/German_Americans.html) which was useful scaffolding but is now superseded by BBKL, and also it misspells Ronge's name. A second link (http://www.froebel.org.uk/), which I moved from references to external links, seems to tell a different and perhaps conflicting story as to the founding of kindergartens in England. It is difficult to tell regarding conflicts since it doesn't mention Bertha Ronge's name. Perhaps it will prove useful to this article in the future. A third link (http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/56-1849.raw.html), which I moved from the references to the external links, has a tidbit of information that might be worth incorporating in the article at some point.
I have also added to the references Schurz's unpublished manuscript biography of his wife, Margarethe Meyer Schurz, which is in his papers in the Library of Congress and is distributed to other libraries on microfilm. It devotes a fair amount of space to discussing Bertha since Schurz met Margarethe in England where she had gone to care for her sister during the birth of Marie. It seems to have a heavy bias against Johannes Ronge, but still contains much useful information as far as this article is concerned. It gives much credit to Bertha for introducing the kindergarten in England. It is in German and there is a partial English translation in the papers.
Bob Burkhardt (talk) 20:09, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism edit
As with Johannes Ronge, there seems to be an ongoing effort to rename this article as Bertha von Ronge and other distortions. This all seems to be based on one small mistake on a web page. The vast majority of pages refer to her as Bertha Ronge, her husbands autobiography included I imagine, or cite a page that says otherwise. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 18:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)