History of sport

Sports history is " an important part of an interdisciplinary and self-reflexive cultural studies, the questions prepared in accordance with historical perception and meaning of sport governance, and thus in the society."

History

In Germany, teachers are usually trained for two subjects. This made it possible for the state exam to provide the prerequisite for promotion in two subjects. In the history of science, it was less complicated than in experimental subjects to graduate externally. Since the Weimar period, it was for a director of a university institute of Physical Education desirable (if not necessary ) to have a doctorate. This had many a doctorate in history (eg, Bernhard Zimmermann, Wilhelm Henze, Horst Ueberhorst, Erich Beyer, recently Arnd Krüger). This played the sports history in the physical education is much more important than it is today. Today, she leads a shadowy existence behind the more powerful other disciplines of sports science, such as kinesiology, training methods and sports medicine.

How important is the knowledge and research of the history of the development of modern sport and sport science were showing both Pierre de Coubertin, as well as Carl Diem. For Coubertin Olympism and the modern Olympic Games were connected directly to the historiography. Carl Diem also looked far in the past for precursors and role models of modern sports science (Plato, Aristotle, Philostratus and other ancient scholars and philosophers ).

Since the ingot dispute the physical exercises in Germany belong to the character-forming compartments under the responsibility of the Faculty of Arts - and not, as in most of Europe or the United States to the health sciences. As a history of gymnastics, the specialist should also sensitize for the defense capacity. The turn of the 19th century pioneers who laid the foundation stone for the sports science, therefore strove particularly to an exploration of the body and movement culture in Ancient Greece. Diem wrote last but not least for this reason, a world history of the sport (1960), with the to some extent a cultural and historical evidence should be provided that exercise, gymnastics, games and sports represent anthropological constants and were closely associated with the military capability.

The total representations on new German sports story of Edmund New Dorff and Wolfgang Eichel are examples of a closed and finalized matic understanding of sports history. Edmund New Dorffs four -volume history of modern German physical exercise originated as a standard work of 1930 until 1932. Eichel History of Physical Culture in Germany appeared in 1965 in East Berlin and was written in terms of the Marxist- Leninist ideology. Horst Ueberhorst, the editor of the six-volume anthology, history of physical education, however, the task of sports history saw is to illuminate the past in order to better understand the present.

Tendencies of

The views on the meaning and role of sports history, as well as about their subjects and approaches are also generally related to the theoretical discussion in the science of history. Here, the development was characterized by the rejection of historicism as the dominant in the 19th -century historical science. The modern science of history no longer understood merely as a historical historiography, but also as a historical social science, in which the results and methods of other sciences are to be taken into account.

In contrast to the older sports history, the constructed continuity, Pierre Bourdieu stresses of sports sociological perspective the fraction of modern sport movement with older cultures.