Kineziologija, Vol. 32 No. 1, 2000.
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New insights into the biography and scientific background of Nicolas Dally (1795-1862), father of kinesiology (1857)
Roland Renson
; Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
Sažetak
Kinesiology has recently gained more and more credibility as a proper academic denominator for the field, which has traditionally been labelled as physical education and more recently also as sport or exercise science. It seems therefore appropriate to shed more light on the biography of Nicolas Dally and his scientific background. In collaboration with one of our students (Celis 1998), we have recently started to dig deeper into the rather obscure period of Dally’s exile in Belgium from 1817 onwards until 1843. Some of these findings throw a new light on his complex personality and his wide ranging scientific interests.
It is amazing that, in this period from 1817 to 1843, we did not come across one single sign of evidence pointing to Dally’s interest in gymnastics, physiotherapy or ’cinésiologie’ as he would later entitle his magnum opus of 1857. Neither do we have evidence that Dally had already collaborated with the French ’gymnasiarch’ Henri Triat, during the latter’s stay in Brussels, where he had opened a private gymnasium in 1841. We intend to continue our investigation both on Triat and Dally and hope to be able to bring further clarification on this collaboration between a gymnasiarch and a kinesiologist.
Ključne riječi
Nicolas Dally, kinesiology, biography
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Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2000.
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