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Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, otherwise known as the Marquis of Sotelo (19 February 1770 – 1848), contributed to gymnastics in France and to the resurgence of sport in the so-called modern world in general.

Ondeano was born in Valencia, Spain, the son of a brigadier of the Spanish army. At the age of nine he studied at a Saint-Isodore school within Madrid. At sixteen years of age he entered the military, in the capacity of an infantry-man in the army of Cordone.

Ondeano took French nationality during 1816 and opened a gymnasium in Paris during 1817, and another in 1820, for the use of the military and also the general population.

Amongst other works, he published texts entitled:

• New Complete Manual of Physical Education for Gymnastics and Morals.
• Civil (or Civilian) French Gymnasium (of which there was an edition in print during the year 1819)

See also

• Thomas Arnold
• Johann Bernhard Basedow
• William Penny Brookes
• Pierre de Coubertin
• Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths
• Georges Hébert
• Pehr Henrik Ling
• Gymnastic and Sports Federation of French Patronages

References

1. the United States of America's Library of Congress
2. ^ Hortense G. Du Faÿ, Francisco Amoros y Ondeano (marq. de Sotelo.) (1855). Coup d'œil sur le mouvement européen de 1790 à 1814, justifiant l'invasion d'Espagne de 1808, ou, Notice sur le marquis de Spoleta. published Paris 1855 (Original from Oxford University, Digitized 28 Apr 2006). Retrieved 2015-06-07.
3. Conrado Durántez - The Foundation of the Spanish Olympic Committee Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine published by the International Society of Olympic Historians
4. Jan Todd - Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870 (p.63, note 27) Mercer University Press, 1998, 369 pages, ISBN 0865545618 Critical Studies in Education and Culture
5. Francisco Amorós Y. Ondeano - Nouveau Manuel Complet D'Éducation Physique, Gymnastique Et Morale, Volume 2 BiblioBazaar 2010, 212 pages, ISBN 1144330432
6. Gymnase civil français impr. P. N. Rougeron, 1819, 19 pages, (ed. translated partly using HarperCollins Publishers French Dictionary)

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