Gustav Zander

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Gustaf Zander, ca.1890
Share of the SA de Gymnastique Médicale Mécanique (Système du Docteur Zander) from June 17, 1880 with a representation of various "Zander apparatus"

Jonas Gustaf Vilhelm Zander (born March 29, 1835 in Stockholm ; † June 17, 1920 ibid) was a Swedish doctor and physiotherapist . In the 1850s he developed a system of therapeutic gymnastic devices and medico-mechanical therapy . Zander is the model of today's apparatus-supported training therapies and thus one of the founders of modern sports and wellness medicine .

Life

After attending the Klara Skola elementary school and grammar school in Stockholm, Zander began studying at Uppsala University in 1855 and passed his candidate examination in 1860. After his license to practice medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in 1864, he first founded a teaching institute in Stockholm for the practical testing of his devices, which were manufactured industrially from 1877, and after initial successes, his first "Medico-Mechanical Institute". A few years later a second Zander Institute was opened in London and in 1880 Zander traveled to New York to found his third institute near Central Park . Other institutions followed across Europe. In Germany there were at times up to 79 "Zander Institutes". Zander was also accepted as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1896 . In Germany the term “Zanderei” was used.

Due to the consequences of the First World War , the pikeperch institutes were mainly used in the rehabilitation of disabled people. Due to this loss of image and the subsequent global economic crisis (1930s), Zander and his therapy got completely out of fashion, so that it was not further developed. Only since the 1980s has his therapy found a revival in fitness studios .

Works

  • Mechanical Exercise: A Means of Cure . London 1883
  • The apparatus for mechanical-therapeutic-gymnastic treatment and their application . 1893

literature

  • Alfred Levertin: Dr. G. Zander's medico-mechanical gymnastics, its method, meaning and application: along with excerpts from the relevant literature . Stockholm 1892.
  • Alferd Levertin, Franz Heiligenthal: The basics of Dr. G. Zander's medico-mechanical gymnastics method and its application in four special presentations . Stockholm 1894.
  • Noyan Dinckal: medicomechanics. Machine gymnastics between orthopedic apparatus treatment and sociable muscle training , 1880–1918 / 19. In: Technikgeschichte , 74, 2007, pp. 227–250.
  • Hans Christoph Kreck: The medico-mechanical therapy Gustav Zander in Germany. A contribution to the history of physiotherapy in the Wilhelminian Empire . Frankfurt am Main, Univ. Diss. (Human Medicine), 1988; reprinted in: Krankengymnastik , 42, 1990, pp 40-46, 164-173, 294-306, 441-444, 537-553, 685-693, 799-804.
  • Arnd Krüger : history of movement therapy . In: Preventive Medicine . Springer, Heidelberg, loose-leaf collection, 1999, 07.06, 1–22.
  • Gustav Zander . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 758 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of fitness training equipment from 1850 to today . Spiegel Online ; accessed on September 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Zander, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zander, Jonas Gustav Vilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish doctor and physiotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1920
Place of death Stockholm