Carl Philipp Euler

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Carl Euler

Carl Philipp Euler (born February 8, 1828 in Kirchenbollenbach (today Idar-Oberstein ), † September 15, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German gymnastics teacher and writer.

Life

Euler was the younger son of the superintendent Adolf Euler and his wife Sophie Elisabeth, a daughter of the court chaplain Friedrich Wilhelm Spener . The future engineer Carl Friedrich Euler was his older brother, through his mother Euler was related to the theologian Philipp Jakob Spener .

In 1848 Euler began to study philology and history at the University of Bonn ; It is not guaranteed whether he met the theologian Gottfried Kinkel there. In 1848 he joined the Bonn Wingolf (then Germania). Together with Friedrich Albert Lange , Euler soon became a committed member of the Academic Gymnastics Club .

After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer , Euler moved to Berlin University with the same subjects . There - according to his own statements - a seminar of the Central Gymnastics Institute was one of his most important from 1852 to 1853 . In 1854 Euler was able to successfully complete his studies with a doctorate .

In the same year Euler got a job as a gymnastics teacher at the Pforta State School in Bad Kösen . He was soon able to make a name for himself there, by restructuring the physical education lessons, including the latest findings, also with regard to swimming lessons. In 1860 Euler was promoted and appointed as a lecturer at the Central Gymnasium. Here Euler was the trigger for the parallel bars dispute , because he wanted to reintegrate high bar and parallel bars into the practice routine, which Hugo Rothstein had abolished,

In 1860 Euler married Sophie, a daughter of Superintendent Tischer from Jerxheim ( Duchy of Braunschweig ) in Berlin . With her he had two daughters and two sons.

In 1872 Euler was appointed full professor , and when the gymnastics teacher training institute was created five years later , Euler was appointed as a teaching director to direct it. In addition to these tasks taught Euler students at various Berlin schools, but also a teacher at the School Teacher and school teachers seminar .

In 1892 Euler reached the high point of his career when he was appointed to the school board . From 1895, Euler gradually resigned from his offices and retired into private life. At the age of 73 he died after a brief illness on September 15, 1901 in Berlin.

Euler was largely responsible for the reintroduction of "German gymnastics" ( apparatus gymnastics ). He was against the "Swedish gymnastics" (among others by Hugo Rothstein ), the parallel bars , horizontal bar and the like. a. refused. Euler also supported the theories of Adolf Spieß from the start , who vehemently advocated physical education for girls . Euler also campaigned for this in the Central Committee for the Promotion of Youth and Popular Games . Euler also set the trend by integrating swimming lessons in schools. He tried u. a. also to meet the requirements of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen .

Fonts

  • (with Gebhard Eckler ): Regulations and official announcements concerning the gymnastics in Prussia. Leipzig 1869.
  • (with Hermann Otto Kluge ): Textbook of the art of swimming for gymnasts and other friends of physical exercise and for use in schools and military swimming facilities. Berlin 1870.
  • (with Hermann Otto Kluge): Gym equipment and gymnastics equipment for school and military gymnastics institutions and gymnastics clubs. Berlin 1872.
  • The Jahndenkmal. Leipzig 1874.
  • The lesson in gymnastics. (Revised from Diesterweg's guide ) Essen 1878.
  • The history of physical education. In: Karl Kehr : History of the method. Gotha 1880.
  • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. His life and work. Stuttgart 1881.
  • Friedrich Friesen . Berlin 1885.
  • Encyclopedic Handbook of All Gymnastics and Allied Areas. Vienna 1894–1896.
  • The German art of gymnastics according to FL Jahn and Ernst Eiselen as a guide for aspiring gymnastics teachers and for self-teaching. With a precise explanation of the gymnastics equipment and 22 illustrations of the same. Anhuth, Danzig 1840.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Euler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : History of movement therapy. In: Preventive Medicine. ( Loose-leaf collection ) Springer, Heidelberg 1999, 07.06, pp. 1–22.
personal data
SURNAME Euler, Carl Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Euler, Carl (common attribution)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnastics teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchenbollenbach (today Idar-Oberstein )
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1901
Place of death Berlin