Consideraţii despre Gheorghe Moceanu şi o carte uitată, alcătuită de el.

Gheorghe Moceanu (1835-1909) was the first teacher of gymnastics, fencing and peasants' dances from Romania. Our paper is intended to be an homage to his memory, at the fulfillment of 105 years since he died. Besides some important date about his biography and achievements in the field of physical education, there are presented the appreciations of some of his contemporaries: Nicolae Iorga, Cella Delavrancea and Onoriu Cheţianu. Another aim of our paper is to present a rare book, elaborated by him and entitled "The History, Anatomy and Hygiene of Gymnastics, Following the Most Significant Authors, with the Principal Figures and Explanations about Bathes and School of Swimming". The book was published several times, the forth one being published in 1881, in Bucharest. Moceanu mentioned in the introduction on this book that he elaborated it translating the chapters about the history, anatomy, physiology and hygiene of gymnastics from a book written by Junot and Senglet, adding some figures and explanations from a study of Moritz Kloss about bathes and swimming school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]