biography
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Hahn, Kurt (Matthias Robert Martin)
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| lived:
| (1886–1974)
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| biography:
| Educationist, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Göttingen, fled from Nazi Germany in 1933, and established Gordonstoun School in Moray (Scotland) in 1934, emphasizing physical rather than intellectual activities in education. His ideas influenced the development of such establishments as the Outward Bound Schools (1941) and the Atlantic Colleges (1957). |
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