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3 unusual facts about Charles Beck


Charles Beck

In 1830, he and two other teachers established a school at Philipstown, New York, on the Hudson River, opposite West Point.

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.

Karl Beck

Charles Beck (1798–1866), German-born American classical scholar



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