Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths

Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths
Identifier: pioneersofmodern10leon (find matches)
Title: Pioneers of modern physical training
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Leonard, Fred Eugene, 1866-1922
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: (New York) Physical Directors' Society of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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ton Library Consortium IVIember Libraries www.archive.org/details/pioneersofmodern10leon Pioneers ofModern Physical Training By Fred E. Leonard, M. D. Professor of Physiology and Physical Training AND Director of the Mens Gymnasium IN Oberlin College m- ^rger.ts Normal School Reprinted from Physical TrainingVol. VI., Nos. 3-10 and Vol. VII., Nos. 1-8 (1909, January—1910, June) Published by the Physical Directors Society of the Young Mens Christian Association of North America feoston UniversitySciiooi ®f EclacQtit^n scU ooi ■^_ ^d ^v^ .11, l^iSii 5301 CONTENTS >^ I. Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths 5 II. Franz Xachtegall 7 III. Pehr Henrik Ling 9 \ IV. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn . ^ 13 V. Phokion Heinrich Clias 19 VVI. Adolf Spiess VII. Charles Follen 27 VIII. Charles Beck 33 IX. Francis Lieber 39 X. Dio Lewis 45 ^XI. Edward Hitchcock 51 ^^11. Dudley Allen Sargent 55 XIII. Xils Posse 61 XIV. Edward ^lussey Hartwell 69 XV. Robert J. Roberts 77 XVI. Luther Halsev Gulick 83
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J. C. F. GUTSMUTHS I. Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths.* The first school in modern times to give physical train-ing a place in its daily program seems to have been thatopened by the educational reformer Johann BernhardBasedow (1723-1790) in ITT^t at Dessau, in the GermanDuchy of Anhalt. He assigned to one of the teachers as apart of his regular duties the direction and supervision ofthe exercises of pupils. Christian Gotthilf Salzmann(1744-1811), after three years of teaching at the Dessauschool, withdrew to open (1784) a similar Educational In-stitute on the country estate of Schnepfenthal, on the northslope of the Thuringian Forest about ten miles southwestof Gotha. GuTsMuTHS (1759-1839), born in Ouedlinburg,north of the Harz Mountains, having spent three years inthe University of Halle, was now private tutor in thefamily of a physician, and accompanied two sons of thelatter to Schnepfenthal, where Salzmann persuaded him toremain as teacher of gymnastics, geography, history, anpioneersofmodern10leon