About the Author

Steinbrecht was born in 1808 in Ampfurth, a village near Oschersleben in the B�rde district of Saxony, which at that time was a province of Prussia. He studied veterinary medicine in Berlin before spending eight years at the man�ge at Moabit under the celebrated dressage trainer Louis Seeger. It was there that he met his wife, Seeger's niece. From 1834 to 1842 he directed a private man�ge in Magdeburg, and then returned to Berlin to work again with Seeger. In 1849 Steinbrecht took over as director of Seeger's man�ge and began work on a book on horsemanship. In 1859 he acquired his own man�ge in Dessau, but returned once again to Berlin in 1865, where he continued to train horses almost until his death. His book was expanded and edited by Paul Plinzner and published posthumously as Das Gymnasium des Pferdes, "The Gymnasium of the Horse" in 1886. The date of publication is often incorrectly given as 1885 in bibliographies such as that of Huth. A second edition was published in 1892, and a third in 1901.