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 modern era.the United States of America's Library of Congress [Retrieved 2015-06-07]Conrado Durántez - The Foundation of the Spanish Olympic Committee published by the International Society of Olympic Historians [Retrieved 2015-08-08]
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. He opened a gymnasium in Paris during 1817, and another in 1820, for the use of both the military and the general population.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, Critical Studies in Education and Culture [Retrieved 2015-06-07]
Amongst other works, he published texts entitled:
New Complete Manual of Physical Education for Gymnastics and Morals.Francisco Amorós Y. Ondeano - Nouveau Manuel Complet D'Éducation Physique, Gymnastique Et Morale, Volume 2 BiblioBazaar 2010, 212 pages, [Retrieved 2015-06-07] Civil (or Civilian) French Gymnasium (of which there was an edition in print during the year 1819)Gymnase civil français impr. P. N. Rougeron, 1819, 19 pages, [Retrieved 2015-06-07] (ed. translated partly using HarperCollins Publishers French Dictionary)
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
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