# Niels Bukh

> Niels Ebbesen Mortensen Bukh 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.

*Danish gymnast and educator (1880-1950)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Athlete ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131))
- **Category:** Athletes
- **Country:** Denmark
- **Born:** 1880-06-15
- **Died:** 1950-07-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

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