Gustav Zander

Jonas Gustav Vilhelm Zander ( born March 29, 1835 in Stockholm, † June 17, 1920 ) was a Swedish physician and physiotherapist. He developed in the 1850s, a system heilgymnastischer devices and the Medico - mechanical treatment. Zander is the model of today's device-aided training therapies and therefore one of the founders of modern sports and wellness medicine.

Life

After attending primary school and Gymnasium Klara skola in Stockholm Zander began in 1855 to study at Uppsala University and took his Kandidatexamen 1860. After his license to practice medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in 1864 he founded in Stockholm initially an educational establishment for the practical testing of its devices that have been produced industrially from 1877, after the first successes of his first " Medico - Mechanical Institute ". A few years later a second Zander Institute was opened in London in 1880 and traveled to New York Zander, to start his third institution in the vicinity of Central Park. Other facilities followed throughout Europe. So there was in Germany at times up to 79 " Zander Institutes ". Zander was also recorded in 1896 as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In Germany, the term was " Zanderei " used.

Due to the consequences of the First World War and the Great Depression ( 1930s ) came Zander and his therapy into oblivion. Only since the 1980s finds his therapy a revival in gyms.

Works

• Mechanical Exercise: A Means of Cure, London 1883
• The apparatus for mechanically - healing gymnastic treatment and their applications, 1893