Gheorghe Moceanu
Gheorghe Moceanu (1838 – 1909) was a Transylvanian, later Romanian physical education teacher who laid the foundations for the discipline in his adopted country. Born in Orman, Cluj County, in Austrian-ruled Transylvania, he attended high school in Gherla and Blaj prior to studying pedagogics in Budapest and gymnastics at Vienna. Unable to make a living in his native province, he crossed the Carpathians into the Romanian Old Kingdom in 1862. He was educated according to the system of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, which emphasized collective exercises meant to regenerate the nation's physical vigor. Until he finished training the first students capable of carrying on his work, he was Romania's only gymnastics master, with other classes being taught by junior army officers or firemen. He laid the f
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Gheorghe Moceanu
Gheorghe Moceanu (1838 – 1909) was a Transylvanian, later Romanian physical education teacher who laid the foundations for the discipline in his adopted country. Born in Orman, Cluj County, in Austrian-ruled Transylvania, he attended high school in Gherla and Blaj prior to studying pedagogics in Budapest and gymnastics at Vienna. Unable to make a living in his native province, he crossed the Carpathians into the Romanian Old Kingdom in 1862. He was educated according to the system of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, which emphasized collective exercises meant to regenerate the nation's physical vigor. Until he finished training the first students capable of carrying on his work, he was Romania's only gymnastics master, with other classes being taught by junior army officers or firemen. He laid the f
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