Niels Bukh, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Niels Bukh

Danish gymnast and educator

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1880

Date of Death: 07-Jul-1950

Profession: writer, pedagogue, gymnast

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Niels Ebbesen Mortensen Bukh (15 June 1880 – 7 July 1950) was a Danish gymnast and educator who founded the first athletic folk high school in Ollerup in Funen, Denmark.
He achieved international fame as a gymnastics trainer for the Danish team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912.
He was inspired by the rhythmic female gymnastics of the Finnish gymnastics educator Elli Björkstén (1870–1947) and the medical gymnastics of Kaare Theilmann.