Jaro Pawel

Jaro Pawel ( Jaroslaus Pawel ; born October 11, 1850 in Budislau, South Bohemia (today Budislav in Okres Tábor ); † March 1, 1917 in Baden / Lower Austria ) was an Austrian gymnastics teacher and Germanist.

From 1873 Pawel studied German and classical philology at the University of Vienna , as well as music at the conservatory. He passed three teaching examinations (gymnastics in 1878, singing in 1892 and German studies in 1898) and taught at various higher schools in Vienna from 1878. From 1902 to 1906 he taught at the teachers' seminar in Sankt Pölten, then at the Gymnasium Baden gymnastics, German and at times Latin. From 1884 to 1917 he taught the theory and history of gymnastics at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna. In 1900 he was awarded the title of professor as the second gymnastics teacher after Johann Hoffer .

With his teaching activity at the University of Vienna, Pawel was the first to establish an independent sports science at a European university. He played a key role in reforms of school gymnastics (youth game movement, sports movement, inquiry for physical education), was active as a founder and functionary in gymnastics clubs and published numerous specialist books and articles. In addition, he studied the work of Klopstock as a Germanist and in 1889 published a two-volume critical edition of his odes with Franz Muncker . His own literary works remained insignificant.

Works

• Erik (drama), 1876
• The Gretchen Wunderhold (romantic poem), 1879
• The literary reforms of the 18th century in Vienna , 1881
• Ground plan of a theory of gymnastics , 2 vols., 1884–8
• A brief outline of the development history of German school gymnastics , 1885
• Germany's gymnast , 1885
• Instructions for giving physical education at the Austrian secondary schools , Part 1, 1886

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• H. Strohmeyer:  Pawel, Jaroslaus (Jaro). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 366.
• Rudolf Müllner: "Perspectives of historical research on sport and movement culture " , LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 9783643503084 , pp. 82–83