Pehr Henrik Ling
Pehr Henrik Ling
3D
Published 2019-09-13T12:34:31+00:00
In 1813, Ling founded what is today The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH. Its purpose was to train teachers for schools and for the army. The Napoleonic Wars and Sweden’s loss of Finland created a desire to safeguard national autonomy. Ling was inspired by “the spirit of freedom of the ancient Geats”. He wrote about the ancient Norse and believed that physical education strengthens both the people and the nation. Ling’s physical exercise program spread both in Sweden and internationally. He also developed physiotherapy and classical, so-called Swedish massage.
These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur
Photography credit: CC BY SA Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum ; CC BY SA Nationalmuseum
| Date published | 13/09/2019 |
| Complexity | Medium |
| Title | Pehr Henrik Ling |
| Dimension | 73.5 cm tall |
| Accession | NMGrh 3178 |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | Transferred 1967 from the Sculpture Collection, NMSk 824 (purchase 1891) |
| Record | http://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=37067&viewType=detailView |
| Artist | Hans Michelson |
| Place | Nationalmuseum |
