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Charles Follen. Brief life of a vigorous reformer: 1796-1840. September-October 2002. Student revolutionary, political refugee, gymnastics instructor, radical abolitionist clergyman: German-born Karl Follen was an unusual Harvard professor. He grew up during Napoleon's occupation of the German states; that conflict fired his generation's ideal ...
It was introduced to the United States and its school systcms in the 1830’s by such immigrants as Charles Beck, Charles Follen and Francis Lieber. The International Gymnastics Federation...
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Follen also gave demonstrations of the new discipline of gymnastics, made popular by "Father Jahn". In 1826, at the request of a group in Boston, he established and equipped the first gymnasium there and became its superintendent.
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This paper strives to shed some light upon the aesthetic heritage of gymnastics in order that we might understand, appreciate and evaluate gymnastic products at the Olympics as distinctive and valuable, and culturally-bound contributions to international sport. Download Free PDF. View PDF.
Although slow to catch on in the schools, gymnastics did flourish in the Turnvereins and Sokols. It was introduced to the United States and its school systems in the 1830s by such immigrants as Charles Beck, Charles Follen and Francis Lieber.
For his work, Jahn is often referred to as the father of modern gymnastics. From Germany, gymnastics spread throughout Europe. It also made its way to the United States. German scholars Charles Beck and Charles Follen opened the first gymnasiums in the US in Massachusetts in 1826.
