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Week 4 Forum : Friedrich Jahn

Week 4  Forum : Friedrich Jahn

Q After reading and learning about the Friedrich Jahn gymnastics movement, how was this a patriotic movement? Explain how you think this movement was viewed negatively. And then, ultimately, how did this movement progress to the United States?

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Friedrich Ludwig Jahn took the Charitists' (Philanthropists') gymnastics and combined it with a nationalistic and socio-political ideology after adding a profusion of additional aspects. As a result, he developed a new gymnastics technique and an ideology movement known as the "Turnbewegung," which became the cornerstone of Apparatus Gymnastics and the German Gymnastics System