Hubertus Joseph Pilates - The Biography

The first ever published biography of Hubertus Joseph Pilates. Instead of regurgitating the myths surrounding the creator of Contrology, the authors spend years investigating and researching. They come up with a rather different result and a fresh new look into the man and his work. He becomes again human and his work even more a reflection of who he was. The creator of such a popular workout deserves no less: A serious and calm look at his life beyond mythology and hearsay.

Link to the store Pilates Art Store

Link to the authors site Contrology Club

Visit our gallery with quite a bit of eyecandy from the book and the research!!!

Read here the text by Javier Perez Pont from the 2012 Conference in Nice - A dissertation on Joes life and peek into future works already on the making Conference Nice 2012

Lean aqui el texto integro en español de la Conferencia en Niza en el 2012 - Una disertación sobre la vida de Joseph Pilates y una ojeada a los proximos trabajos Conferencia Niza 2012

Institutions consulted in the research

1890 United States Federal Census

1900 United States Federal Census

1910 United States Federal Census

1920 United States federal Census

1930 United States Federal Census

Ancestry.com. de The Generations Network, Inc.

Anglo-American Family History Society

Kryzanowska-Mejía Family Archives

Internacional Red Cross Comite Archive, Geneve

Archivos de la Diócesis de Lincoln, Nebraska

Archivos Landgerchtes Essen

Berkshire Middle District Registry of Deeds, Pittsfield Massachussets

Blackpool Library

Bruce King Archives, en Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York

Corporate Memory Analysis, Ministerio de Defensa Británico

District Court for the Southern District of New York 1917-1950 y 1824-1941.

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Famington Community Library Archives

Ferncliff Cemetery Association Archives

Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel archives

Gemeetearchief Roermond

Haus der Essener Geschichte Stadtarchiv

Historisches Archiv, Stadt Köln

Institut fur Stadtgeschichte Stadtarchiv Gelsenkirchen

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives

Jersey Heritage Archives

Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics

Kreisarchiv Viersen

Kommunalarchiv Minden

Lancaster City Museum

Lancaster Central Library

Lancashire County Record Office. Preston

Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf Stadtarchiv

Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London

Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Washington

Livingston Masonic Library of Grand Lodge Archives, New York

Lucas County Recorder's Public Records

Marks and Clerk archives

Manx National Heritage Archives and Library, Douglas, Isle of Man

Martha Graham School and Dance Company Archives

Marriage records from 1866-1930. Municipal Archives, New York

Marriage Index - Randolph County Arkansas USA

Missouri History Museum and Research Center, St. Louis

McGuires Fine Art of Northville, Michigan

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

New York City Directories Archive

National Fairground Archive de la Universidad de Sheffield

National Circus Archives, Great Britain

National Archives Northwest Region, New York

Newberry Library, Chicago

Public Records Unit-Fire records section, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201-3857

Rootsweb.com, MyFamily.com Inc.

Regional Historisch Centrum Limburg

Registros del Concejo Provincial de Lima

Sentencia del juicio de la marca registrada Pilates en United States District Court Southern District of New York

Socrates Lodge nº. 585 F. & A.M. archives

Stadtarchiv Mönchengladbach

Stadtarchiv Viersen

Stadtarchiv Oberhausen

Stadtarchiv Bonn

Stadtarchiv Hamburg

Stadtarchiv Jülich

Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library Archives

Stadtarchiv Kaiserslautern

St Louis City Directories

St. Louis Telephone Directory

St. Louis 1930 Census records

St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspapers

St. Louis City Hall Archives

Stadtverwaltung Oederan/Sachsen

Stadtarchiv Dortmund

Standesamt Göppersdorf

Standesamt Burgstädt

Stadt Chemnitz Stadtarchiv

Sean P.Gallagher Private Archives

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Photograph Archives, Washington, D.C.

The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, Great Britain

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division

The New York Public Library Periodical and Microform Archives

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, New York

The School of American Ballet Archives

The State of Michigan Vital Records

Tower Circus Archives, Blackpool

United States Patent and Trademarks Office

U.S.A. Social Security Death Index Records

U.S. phone and address directories

U.S. Public Records Index

U.S. Citizenship and Inmigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Lee, Missouri

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Personal Testimony

Allegra Kent

Anne Hutchinson Guest

August John Benkert

Aviva Rahmani

Basil Blecker

Diane Cartier

Doris Perlman

Edwina Fontaine

Ernest Richard Le Riche

Evan Blair Rize

Gary Allen Le Riche

Henry Krooss

Horst von der Lieth

Ilana Adler

Jay Grimes

John Prinz

Kathleen Gaye Le Riche

Kathy Stanford Grant

Louise Reichlin

Marianne Bachmann

Marian Horosko

Martine Limeul (Mattox)

Mathilde Klein

Mary Bowen

Mary Pilates Le Riche

Norma Doggett Bezwick

Nadine Revene

Phoebe Higgins

Romana Kryzanowska

Sari Mejía Santo

Sanford Friedman

Sharry Underwood

Wolfgang Pilates