Infamous
Last Words:
Johann
Bernhard Basedow (1723–1790) was the first educator to recognize the importance
of exercise and physical education. He was the son of a hairdresser and was
educated at the Johanneum, where he came under the influence of the rationalist
H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768), author of the famous Wolfenbiitteler
Fragmente (1744). Basedow published his ideas for his students so they might
spread them over all Germany, and he engaged in this new project with all his
accustomed ardor.
His last words: “I wish my corpse to be dissected for the benefit of Science.”
Some
minutes later he called to his student, Emily Holstein, and laid his head on
her breast, and said “but not so fast.”
Infamous
Last Words: Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723–1790)
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