Note 24 — Chapter X · THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY.
Reading edition
Dr. Karl Wassmannsdorff has described in the Deutsche Turnzeitung (1870, pages 35-40 and 41-42) two of the oldest German Ritterschulen, the first founded in 1575 at Selz, in Alsace, and the second the Collogium Illustre at Tübingen, Württemberg, opened in 1594. The article is reprinted in Hirth’s “Das gesamte Turnwesen,” second edition, 1893, 1: 290-303.