Peter V. Karpovich

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Peter Vasilievich Karpovich ( Russian Пётр Васильевич Карпович transcribed Pyotr Vasilievich Karpovich ; born March 25, jul. / 6. April  1896 greg. In Luga , Russian Empire ; † 13. June 1975 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) was a Russian-American exercise physiologist , on whose work the scientific research of strength training is based.

Life

After private tuition, Karpovich studied medicine from 1912 (including with Ivan Petrowitsch Pavlov ) at the SM Kirov Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg . As a medical student, he had to perform operations (e.g. amputations ) at the front as a paramedic and assistant doctor during the First World War . For bravery he was awarded the Russian Order of St. George . He got at the center of the October Revolution . Since his family did not fully support the revolution, he was temporarily detained but released due to a lack of doctors. He successfully completed his medical studies and was deployed in various places until 1922 in the fight against typhus and other epidemics . In 1922 he fled to Latvia and worked for three years as a doctor for the Christian Association of Young People (YMCA) in Riga . Through the connections of the YMCA in the USA, he got a visa as a student and a year later a position at Springfield College (Massachusetts) , the most important training center for physical education teachers, where u. a. Basketball and volleyball were invented. In 1926 he was appointed professor here, and in 1935 he became an American citizen. During World War II , he became the head of the fitness laboratory at the School of Aviation Medicine in San Antonio, Texas for the United States Air Force . While he had argued and published against strength training for a long time , this changed in 1940. From then on, after a strength training demonstration, he campaigned for strength training and researched and published on all aspects of strength even after his retirement in 1969. Karpovich was a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and a co-founder of the American College of Sports Medicine . Springfield College honors Karpovich with an annual memorial lecture. The WorldCat has 386 works by him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SEETHARAMAN, AV (1972): Peter V. Karpovich, MD: His life and contributions to physical education. Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University
  2. ^ "My Short Biography" audio by Peter V. Karpovich; http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/11053 auf. March 14, 2017
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . Volume 18. No. 1 , 1988, p. 43-47 .
  4. ↑ Jane Todd, Terry Todd (2003): Peter V. Karpovich: transforming the strength paradigm. Strength Cond Res. (17), 2, 213-220
  5. ↑ http://springfield.edu/news/springfield-college-hosts-2015-peter-v-karpovich-lecture on . March 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Karpovich, Peter V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karpovich, Peter Vasilievich (full name); Карпович, Пётр Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American sports medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Luga , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1975
Place of death Springfield