Eugeniusz Piasecki
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Eugeniusz Piasecki (born November 13, 1872 in Lwow, died July 14, 1947 in the village of Ptaszyn near Cieplice) was a Polish physician, promotor of sports and hygiene and boyscouting activist.
He was the son of Wenanty Piasecki, a gym teacher at Lwow's schools and member of Gymnastic Society Sokol. Eugeniusz studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and there he became familiar with ideas promoted by Henryk Jordan. In 1896, after graduation, he returned to Lwow where became a gym teacher at the local 4th high school. Soon afterwards, he founded first sports teams for students and in 1904 he opened Sports-Gymnastic Club of the 4th High School, which three years later took on the name Pogon Lwow, becoming one of the most popular sports organizations in the history of Poland. Piasecki was the first director of the club, keeping the post until 1909, when he took up the job of a lecturer at the University of Jan Kazimierz.
In 1912 Piasecki, together with Mieczyslaw Schreiber, published one of the first Polish handbooks of scouting titled Harce mlodziezy polskiej (Games of Polish youth). He wrote that a scout should cultivate national traditions together with emphasis on physical development. Piasecki made up several terms which are until today used in Polish scouting (harcmistrz, harcerz, zastep).
During World War One he moved to Kiev, where lectured hygiene in local Polish University Collegium. In 1919 he returned to Poland and settled in Poznan, where became a professor of the Poznan University, teaching theory of physical education and school hygiene. Piasecki also was an expert, co-working with the League of Nations. He died shortly after World War Two.
[edit] Books
- Harce mlodziezy polskiej,
- Zasady Wychowania Fizycznego (1904)
- Zabawy i gry ruchowe dzieci i mlodziezy, ze zrodel dziejowych i ludoznawczych przewaznie rodzinnych i z tradycji ustnej (1916)
- Zarys teorii wychowania fizycznego (1925)
- Dzieje wychowania fizycznego (1929)
[edit] Sources
- Stanislaw M. Brzozowski, Eugeniusz Piasecki, w: Polski Slownik Biograficzny, tom XXV, 1980
- Mala encyklopedia sportu, Warszawa 1987
