A DOMESTIC GYMNASTICS OF THE DOCTOR DANIEL SCHREBER: CIRCULATION MANUALS IN THE LAST DECADES OF THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

This study deals with the production and circulation processes of a manual entitled Ginástica doméstica, médica e higiênica ou representação e descrição de movimentos ginásticos, first published in Leipzig, in 1855, by the German physician Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber and addressed to parents and educators. Starting from a particular scale of observation that includes singularities that characterize the diffusion of the referred manual between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, we sought to understand some of the relationships established between the education of the body and moral education; in addition to the intersections between the so-called nature of bodies and the processes of rationalization and methodization of knowledge about body movement. More specifically, the two translations of the work that circulated in Brazil are analyzed. The first was published in Lisbon, in 1879, and the second in Rio de Janeiro by the newspaper Gazeta de Notícias, in 1887.