Gymnastics in modern times
gymnastic history turnest Germany festival Germany’s gymnastics festival continues to this day. Modern gymnastics emerged in the eighteenth century with the Enlightenment. In 1762, the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), one of the leading representatives of the Enlightenment movement, published the pedagogical treatise Emile, in which he advocated physical activity as part of teaching. […]
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