Ema Geron

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Ema Geron (born October 13, 1920 in Sliven , Bulgaria ; † March 11, 2011 in Jerusalem ) was a Bulgarian-Israeli sports psychologist. She was a pioneer in applied sports psychology and in 1969 she was the founding president of the European Sports Psychologists ( Fédération Européenne de Psychologie des Sports et des Activités Corporelles ).

Life

Ema Geron was a gymnast. As a Jew she survived the Holocaust and was only able to study after the liberation of Bulgaria by the Red Army . After graduating as a qualified sports teacher, Ema Geron became a research assistant in 1948 and a senior assistant at the National Sports University in Sofia in 1952 . After her doctorate in sports psychology at the sports university, she was promoted to associate professor in 1954 and in 1967 to the chair of sports psychology. In 1957, 1961 and 1965 she wrote the first textbooks on sports psychology for sports students. She was one of the first psychologists in competitive sports in what was then the Eastern Bloc. It set up the first research laboratory for sport psychological research / support for top athletes.

In 1965 she took part in the 1st World Congress of Sport Psychology in Rome and took over the organization of the 2nd Congress in Varna . This is where the idea of ​​founding a European organization for sport psychology (FEPSAC) arose. This specialist agency was founded in Vittel in 1969 and Ema Geron was elected founding chairman.

In 1973 Ema Geron emigrated to Israel via Germany . Due to a carelessness of the authorities, her husband (in Turkey ) and she (in Germany) were in non-socialist countries. However, her son was subsequently refused to travel to his parents' home for a decade. In Bulgaria, she was excluded from the academy and only rehabilitated after 1990. Since she had become the chairwoman of FEPSAC as the representative of Bulgaria, she lost this office, but then became vice-president four years later as a personal member. At the Zinman College in Netanya Ema Geron was to work on individual research projects director of a research laboratory for top sports (now Ribstein Center for Sports Medicine and Research ) and Professor of Sport Psychology. She has published in Bulgarian, Russian, English, German and Hebrew. The WorldCat has 49 works by her.

Honors

  • 1978 Admission to the National Academy of Kinesiology (first from a country behind the Iron Curtain)
  • 1993 Distinguished International Sport Psychologist Award by the ISSP (Int. Sport Psychologist)
  • Since 2011 annual Ema Geron Award for special achievement in sport psychology by FAPSAC

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nsa.bg/en/page,1161
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger & Paul Kunath: The development of sports science in the Soviet zone and the GDR, in: Wolfgang Buss , Christian Becker u. a. (Ed.): Sport in the Soviet Zone and the early GDR. Genesis - structures - conditions. Schorndorf: Hofmann 2001, 351 - 366.
  3. ↑ OBITUARY: Ema Geron (1920-2011); www.issponline.org/documents/ema_geron.doc
  4. ↑ http://www.nationalacademyofkinesiology.org/in-memoriam/in-memoriam/ema-geron  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nationalacademyofkinesiology.org  
  5. ↑ http://www.fepsac.com/activities/fepsac_awards/ema_geron_award/
personal data
SURNAME Geron, Ema
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian-Israeli sports psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Sliven , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2011
Place of death Jerusalem