HENRICH METZNER

HISTORICAL PRESENTATION

LIFE SPAN: 1847-1901

EDUCATION: ? HISTORICAL TIME PERIOD: EMERGENCE OF A PROFESSION WITH A COMMON SENSE RATIONAL THOUGHT APPROACH (1885-1930)

BEST KNOWN FOR:

HES RELATIVELY UNKNOWN, BUT MADE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GERMAN GYMNASTICS PROGRAM. A WRITER AND MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK AND GERMAN TURNVEREIN.

CONTRIBUTIONS:
HE HELPED WRITE MANY ARTICLES AND BOOKS ABOUT GYMNASTICS. HE WAS ON A BOARD OF GYMNASTICS WITH OTHERS WHO WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SPORT
HIS MOST PROLIFIC ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE GERMAN SYSTEM IN REGARDS TO HIS LOVE, GYMNASTICS. HE IS FEATURED IN THE JAHRBCHER DER DEUTSCHAMERIKANISCHEN TURNEREI BOOK, WHICH IS THE YEARBOOK OF GERMAN AMERICAN TURNVEREIN.

PROFESSION TODAY:
WITHOUT HIS ARTICLE, COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD STILL BE FOLLOWING A BASIC EXERCISE REGIME. THERE WOULD NOT BE AS MUCH STRUCTURE IN GYMNASTICS AS THERE IS TODAY AND COACHES WOULD NOT BE AS EDUCATED ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT SIMPLE, YET EFFECTIVE EXERCISES THERE ARE.

AGREE/DISAGREE:
HE HAS MANY THOUGHTS ON HOW GYMNASTICS SHOULD BE TAUGHT, AND I AGREE WITH HIS MORE LAID BACK APPROACH. HE BELIEVES THAT A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TAKES TIME AND A CHANGE HERE AND THERE IS MORE BENEFICIAL.

QUESTIONS:
WHAT ERA WAS HE IN? WHAT WAS THE ORGANIZATION HE WAS INVOLVED IN CALLED? WHAT WAS HIS MAIN JOB?

REFERENCES:
HTTP://WWW.IHPRA.ORG/GERMANSYSTEM.HTM HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM (HENRICH METZNER PHYSICAL EDUCATION) SIEDENTOP, DARYL. INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION, FITNESS, AND SPORT. 7TH ED. BOSTON: MCGRAW-HILL, 2009. PRINT. (PG 24-25)