In 1830, he and two other teachers established a school at Philipstown, New York, on the Hudson River, opposite West Point.
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He taught physical education classes with a curriculum modeled after Jahn's system, and translated Jahn's 1816 work Deutsche Turnkunst into English as Treatise on Gymnasticks, taken chiefly from the German of F. L. Jahn.
Charles Beck (1798–1866), German-born American classical scholar
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