Note 114 — Chapter XV · PER HENRIK LING, FATHER OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN SWEDEN.
Reading edition
The story appears, along with other statements unsupported or flatly contradicted by later investigations, in Atterbom’s address before the Swedish Academy May 29, 1840 (Proceedings 20, 82-202), von Beskow’s memoir of 1859 (pp. vi and vii), and Georgii’s “Biographical Sketch” of 1854 (p. 2). On the contrary see Törngren in Tidskrift i Gymnastik, 4, 415 (1896), Westerblad 1904 pp. 7-12, and Norlander in Lunds Universitets Årsskrift, 9 (1913).