# Louis Seeger

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{{Short description|German equestrian and author}}
'''Louis Seeger''' (1798–1865) was a German equestrian who published several books and was influential in the development of [dressage](/source/dressage). Trained under [Maximilian Weyrother](/source/Maximilian_Weyrother), his methods were highly influenced by the great [François Robichon de la Guérinière](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Robichon_de_la_Gu%C3%A9rini%C3%A8re). Seeger passed on this knowledge through his riding school in Berlin, the first private school in Germany, where his students included [Gustav Steinbrecht](/source/Gustav_Steinbrecht).

His book ''System der Reitkunst'' ("System of Horsemanship"), published in 1844, received the gold medal. In 1852 he published ''Herr Baucher und seine Künste - Ein ernstes Wort an Deutschlands Reiter'' ("Mr. Baucher and His Methods:  An Earnest Word to Germany's Rider"), in which he criticized the training techniques of [Francois Baucher](/source/Francois_Baucher), after he had watched the French rider and had been given the chance to ride several horses trained by the man.<ref name=pod/>

==Published works==

* ''System der Reitkunst'' Berlin: Herbig 1844 [https://books.google.com/books?id=c6xAAAAAcAAJ Full text] ("System of Horsemanship")
* ''Züchtung, Erziehung, Ausbildung des Pferdes im systematischen Zusammenhange'' Berlin: Herbig 1850. [https://books.google.com/books?id=i1s7AAAAcAAJ Full text] ("Breeding, Training, Schooling of the Horse in a Coherent System")
* ''Herr Baucher und seine Künste - Ein ernstes Wort an Deutschlands Reiter'' Berlin: Herbig 1852 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3GA-AAAAcAAJ Full text] ("Mr. Baucher and His Methods:  An Earnest Word to Germany's Rider")

==References==
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<ref name=pod>{{cite book|last=Podhajsky, Alois|author-link=Alois Podhajsky|title= The complete training of horse and rider in the principles of classical horsemanship|url=https://archive.org/details/completetraining00podh|url-access=registration|year= 1967|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, N.Y.|isbn=978-0-385-07872-6|edition=1st |translator=Eva Podhajsky |translator2=V.D.S. Williams |pages=[https://archive.org/details/completetraining00podh/page/287 287]}}</ref>

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