Allen Guttmann

Allen Guttmann (born October 13, 1932 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American sports historian .

Life

Guttmann was born in 1932 as the son of Emile Jacob Gutmann in a non-religious Jewish family in Chicago and grew up in a Catholic working-class neighborhood. Emile Jacob Gutmann was raised by a French-speaking mother and a German-speaking father. In 1942 the family moved to Miami . In the 1950s, Allen Guttmann came to Frankfurt am Main as a soldier in the US Army .

From 1955 to 1972 he was married to Martha Britt Ellis, in 1974 he married Doris Bargen. His first marriage has two children.

He became a professor of English and American studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts . His research focus is the history of sports . His book From ritual to record has been translated into German , Italian and French . His theories on the origin of modern sport, as expressed here, have often been contradicted, as the characteristics of European modernism that Max Weber had transferred to sport were to be found earlier and in other cultures.

Fonts

Japanese sports. A history. Honolulu 2001.
Games and empires. Modern sports and cultural imperialism. New York 1994.
Women's sports. A history. New York 1991.
From ritual to record. The nature of modern sports. New York 1978. (German. From ritual to record. The essence of modern sport. Schorndorf 1979).
The Jewish writer in America: Assimilation and the crisis of identity. New York 1971.
The wound in the heart. America and the Spanish Civil War. New York 1962.

literature

Susanne Klingenstein : Enlarging America. The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars 1930–1990. Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse 1998, ISBN 0-8156-0540-4 .

Web links

Homepage of Allen Guttmann
Literature by and about Allen Guttmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Arnd Krüger , John McClelland (ed.): The beginnings of modern sports. Arena Publications, London 1984, ISBN 0-902175-45-9 .
↑ John M. Carter, Arnd Krüger: Ritual and record: sports records and quantification in pre-modern societies . Greenwood, Westport, Conn 1990, ISBN 0-313-25699-3 .
^ John McClelland : Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (Sport in the Global Society). Routledge, London 2007.
↑ John McClelland, Brian Merrilees (Ed.): Sport and culture in early modern Europe. Le sport et la civilization de l'Europe pré-Moderne . Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto 2009, ISBN 978-0-7727-2052-8 .
↑ Wolfgang Behringer : Cultural History of Sports: From ancient Olympia to the present. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8389-0277-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Guttmann, Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago , Illinois

[1] Arnd Krüger , John McClelland (ed.): The beginnings of modern sports. Arena Publications, London 1984, ISBN 0-902175-45-9 .

[2] John M. Carter, Arnd Krüger: Ritual and record: sports records and quantification in pre-modern societies . Greenwood, Westport, Conn 1990, ISBN 0-313-25699-3 .

[3] John McClelland : Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (Sport in the Global Society). Routledge, London 2007.

[4] John McClelland, Brian Merrilees (Ed.): Sport and culture in early modern Europe. Le sport et la civilization de l'Europe pré-Moderne . Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto 2009, ISBN 978-0-7727-2052-8 .

[5] Wolfgang Behringer : Cultural History of Sports: From ancient Olympia to the present. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8389-0277-7 .