| rdfs:comment | - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (August 11, 1778 – October 15, 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics" Jahn.
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (August 11, 1778 – October 15, 1852) was a German Prussian gymnastics educator and nationalist. He is commonly known as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics". Jahn was controversial for his nationalist ideology. In 1810, he wrote that "Poles, French, priests, aristocrats and Jews are Germany's misfortune." However, claims that Jahn was somehow an ideological "father" of Nazism are debatable.
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| abstract | - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (August 11, 1778 – October 15, 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics" Jahn.
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (August 11, 1778 – October 15, 1852) was a German Prussian gymnastics educator and nationalist. He is commonly known as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics". Jahn was controversial for his nationalist ideology. In 1810, he wrote that "Poles, French, priests, aristocrats and Jews are Germany's misfortune." However, claims that Jahn was somehow an ideological "father" of Nazism are debatable.
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