Viktor Heikel
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Frans Viktor Heikel was a Finland-Swedish gymnastics teacher, known as "the father of Finnish school gymnastics".
Viktor Heikel in the 1880s. Credit: Daniel Nyblin
Heikel after retirement in 1911. Credit: Ernst Ovesén
Yngvar Heikel
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Yngvar Sigurd Heikel was a Finland-Swedish ethnologist.
Viktor Heikel
…Heikel, head of the School for the Deaf. In 1873 Heikel married Hanna Kihlman. He was father to doctor Allan Phayllos Heikel (born 1885) and ethnologist Yngvar Heikel (born 1889). He was also cousin to ethnographer Axel Heikel and philologist Ivar Heikel. Between 1867 and 1869 Heikel studied gymnastics in Stockholm…
Yngvar Heikel in 1916. Credit: Atelier Universal