Note 290 — Chapter XXVIII · THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

Born in Erfurt, Germany, February 11, 1865, of German and Polish ancestry; educated in the Realgymnasium at Halle until 1883; completed the ten-month course at the normal school of the North American Turnerbund, in Milwaukee, in April of 1888, and was teacher of gymnastics in Turnvereine in Trenton, New Jersey (1888-1891), and New Haven, Connecticut (1891-1894); M.D., Yale University Medical School, 1894, and the next year took courses in surgery and orthopedics in the universities at Halle and Leipsic; became associate director of the Anderson Normal School of Gymnastics in 1895, and its director in 1896.