Kellgren , Jonas Henrik , 1837-1916 , practitioner of Swedish medical gymnastics and manipulative treatment Schwedisches Heilgymnastisches Institut , Gotha , Germany Schwedisches Institut für Manuelle Behandlung der Krankheiten , Baden-Baden , Germany Swedish Institution for the Cure of Diseases by Manual Treatment , London Institutet för Manuel Sjukbehandling , Sanna , Sweden Institution Suèdoise pour le Traitement Manuel des Maladies , Paris , France

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Kellgren , Jonas Henrik , 1837-1916 , practitioner of Swedish medical gymnastics and manipulative treatment Schwedisches Heilgymnastisches Institut , Gotha , Germany Schwedisches Institut für Manuelle Behandlung der Krankheiten , Baden-Baden , Germany Swedish Institution for the Cure of Diseases by Manual Treatment , London Institutet för Manuel Sjukbehandling , Sanna , Sweden Institution Suèdoise pour le Traitement Manuel des Maladies , Paris , France

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        [Jonas] Henrik Kellgren (1837-1916) was a practitioner of Swedish medical gymnastics and helped to disseminate the technique beyond Sweden. He was born in Alingsas, southern Sweden, matriculated in 1855 and became an officer in the Swedish Army in 1858. In 1863-1865 he trained at the Kungliga Gymnastika Centralinstitut in Stockholm (founded 1813 by Per Henrik Ling, the pioneer of medical gymnastics), gaining the institute's diploma, and took up the post of teacher of pedagogical gymnastics at Lidköping. Following the death of his wife and son, however, he left Sweden and settled in Germany, setting up the Schwedisches Heilgymnastisches Institut in Gotha. In the early 1870s his health broke down and he retired from full-time work, taking up residence in London. Here he founded the Swedish Institution for the Cure of Diseases by Manual Treatment. An expanding practice was reflected in the foundation of further institutes in the German resorts of Norderney (1877) and Baden-Baden (1883), and in Paris (1884); in summer he took patients to Sanna, near Jönköping in Sweden, leading to the foundation of a sanatorium there. He became the director of the Kungliga Gymnastika Centralinstitut in Stockholm. His son-in-law, Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax, who took up residence in London, was also an important figure in the spread of Kellgren's techniques of Swedish remedial gymnastics and massage to the United Kingdom.

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