Jørgen Peter Müller

JP Mueller

Jørgen Peter Müller (born October 7, 1866 in Adserbølle on Alsen , † November 17, 1938 in Aarhus ) was a Danish athlete and gymnastics teacher . In Germany his name was mostly abbreviated with JP Müller or Germanized with Johann Peder Müller or Johann Peder Mueller .

From 1904 on, he won 134 titles in almost every sport. That same year he wrote Mein System , the first in a series of gymnastics textbooks that quickly became bestsellers . My system was translated into 24 languages ​​and the German translation alone had a print run of 400,000 copies by 1925. Müller continued this success with books such as Mein System für Frauen and Mein System für Kinder . For a long time , müllern was synonymous with doing gymnastics in Germany . He was close to the nudist movement and published a. a. My open-air book.

The system he developed did not require any technical aids and could be implemented by anyone without spending a great deal of time. The various exercises could be carried out in the apartment, although Müller recommended the outdoor version - for example in front of the open window or outside.

He was a staunch opponent of bodybuilding , which was also emerging in his time , as it was propagated primarily by Eugen Sandow . Müller's system, on the other hand, was less aimed at muscle strength and muscle formation than more at general fitness and mobility. It was intended - in an adapted form - for all ages. All organs of the body, including the skin , should be strengthened and supplied with blood through the exercises, for which he provided different levels of requirement. Müller was proud that doctors also recommended his "system" and that the Italian translation was worked out by doctors. It fits that he attached great importance to physical hygiene , which he also made popular starting with Hygienische Winke (1907).

In addition, Müller was one of the first modern sports journalists. The fact that he often used the pseudonym " Apoxyomenos " to mark his contributions , liked to put his own body in the foreground in his publications and referred to his awards as the "most beautiful person" gave rise to many mocking remarks.

1919 Müller was the Danish King Christian X with the Dannebrog excellent.

Although some of the exercises designed by Müller are out of date today, he can still be seen as one of the founders of the modern fitness movement.

Fonts

• With system / My System , 1904 (Eng. My system. 15 minutes of daily work for health , Leipzig and Copenhagen 1904 (16 editions appeared alone until 1915, followed by expanded editions; in 1925 the 391st to 400th thousand appeared))
• Hygienic Wink , Copenhagen a. a. 1907
• Gender morality and happiness in life , Copenhagen as well as Leipzig and Zurich 1909 (later edition Leipzig 1926)
• My System for Children (German: My System for Children , Leipzig 1913 (17th edition, Leipzig after 1927))
• My System for Women (German: My System for Women , Leipzig 1913 (11th edition, 57th to 73rd thousand, Leipzig 1926))
• My Breathing System (German: My Respiratory System , Leipzig and Zurich 1921)
• The Daily Five Minutes (German. The daily five minutes. Gymnastic exercises to achieve and maintain physical performance , Leipzig 1924)
• My open-air book , Leipzig 1927

Web links

• Literature by and about Jørgen Peter Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography miller and PDF versions of his books (English)
• The writer Franz Kafka as an avid "miller"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Köster: Proper names in the German vocabulary: A lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017701-3 , p. 121 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : There Goes This Art of Manliness: Naturism and Racial Hygiene in Germany, in: Journal of Sport History 18 (Spring, 1991), 1, 135 - 158. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH /JSH1991/JSH1801/jsh1801i.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.starkcenter.org/static/igh/articles/igh9.2.8.pdf