Guts Muths, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH

Guts Muths, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH, a German teacher, was born at Quedlinburg, in Prussian Saxony, 9th August 1759, studied at Halle, and from 1785 to 1837 taught gymnastics and geography in Salzmann's scholastic institution at Schnepfenthal. He died 21st May 1839. He is specially remembered for having introduced gymnastics as a branch of education in German schools. On this subject and on geography he wrote numerous text-books, as Gymnastik für die Jugend (1793) and Handbuch der Geographic (1810); he also edited Bibliothek für Pädagogik (1800-20) and, along with Jacobi, Deutsches Land und deutsches Volk (1820-32). See his life by Wassmannsdorf (Heidelberg, 1884).