FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN


Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
  • Born: August 11, 1778
  • Died: October 15, 1852
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Gymnastics Educator Nationalist

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement as well as influencing the German Campaign of 1813, during which a coalition of German states effectively ended the occupation of Napoleon's First French Empire. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics" Jahn.