Irving "Irv or Moon" Mondschein (born February 7, 1924) is an American former track and field athlete and football player.^[1]

Early life[link]

Mondschein, who is Jewish, was born in Brooklyn, New York.^[1][2][3] He attended Boys High School, where he ran track.^[4] He also ran for the New York Pioneer Club.^[1][5] He entered the US Army in 1943.^[6] He became a member of the Pi Lambda Phi while attending New York University^[7]

Decathlon, high jump, and football career[link]

He was AAU decathlon champion in 1944, and in 1946 and 47.^[1][8]

He was NCAA high jump champion in both 1947 and 1948, competing for New York University.^[1][3][8] As of 2007, he still held NYU’s record in the high jump—6 feet, 7¾ inches.^[9]

He also played football as an end for NYU in 1946, earning All-East honors.^[6][8][10]

He competed in the 1948 Olympics for the United States in decathlon, coming in eighth, as teammate Bob Mathias won the gold medal.^[1]

In his career, he was ranked third in the world in outdoor high jump and tenth in the decathlon in 1947; sixth in the indoor high jump and eighth in the decathlon in 1948; and third in the outdoor high jump and sixth in the decathlon in 1949.^[11]

Coaching career[link]

He later coached track, basketball, and football at Lincoln University, starting in 1949.^[1][12] He coached the US team at the 1950 Maccabiah Games, and was also an advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Education, helping for two years to prepare the countries athletes for the 1952 Olympics.^[1][6]

He was then a coach at the University of Pennsylvania; first the assistant track coach (1965–79) and then the head coach (1979–87).^[6] He was also an assistant coach on the 1988 U.S. Olympic team.^[10]

He has previously been an assistant coach at Kutztown University,^[6] and now volunteers as an assistant coach at Haverford College.

Honors[link]

He is a member of the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the New York Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[10][13][14] He is also a member of the NYU Athletics Hall of Fame, and the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame.^[15][16]

Family[link]

His son, Brian Mondschein, was a world-class decathlete in the 1980s.^[6] His grandson Brian was an All-American pole vaulter at Virginia Tech.^[15]

References[link]

External links[link]

• University of Pennsylvania bio
• Jewish Sports Hall of Fame bio

Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Born	Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-02-24)24 February 1786 Hanau, Hesse-Kassel
Died	16 December 1859(1859-12-16) (aged 73) Berlin, Prussia

Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl;^[a] 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm.

Life and work[link]

He was born in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel and in 1803 he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there. The whole of the lives of the two brothers was passed together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common. As students, they had two beds and two tables in the same room. They always lived under one roof, and had their books and property in common.^[1]

Grimm's tomb in Berlin

In 1825 Wilhelm married a pharmacist's daughter; Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as Dortchen, at age 39. Wilhelm's marriage in no way disturbed the harmony of the brothers.^[1] As Richard Cleasby said, “they both live in the same house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the children were common property.”^[1][2] Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm (3 April 1826–15 December 1826), Herman Friedrich Grimm (6 January 1828–16 June 1901), Rudolf Georg Grimm (31 March 1830–13 November 1889), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie (21 August 1832–9 February 1919).

Wilhelm's character was a complete contrast to that of his brother. As a boy he was strong and healthy, but as he grew up he was attacked by a long and severe illness, which left him weak all his life. His was a less comprehensive and energetic mind than that of his brother, and he had less of the spirit of investigation, preferring to confine himself to some limited and definitely bounded field of work; he utilized everything that bore directly on his own studies, and ignored the rest. These studies were almost always of a literary nature.^[1]

Wilhelm took great delight in music, for which his brother had but a moderate liking, and had a remarkable gift of story-telling. Cleasby, in the account of his visit to the brothers quoted above, relates that “Wilhelm read a sort of farce written in the Frankfort dialect, depicting the ‘malheurs’ of a rich Frankfort tradesman on a holiday jaunt on Sunday. It was very droll, and he read it admirably.” Cleasby describes him as “an uncommonly animated, jovial fellow.” He was, accordingly, much sought in society, which he frequented much more than his brother.^[1]

From 1837-1841, the Grimm Brothers joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to form a group known as the Göttinger Sieben (The Göttingen Seven). They protested against Ernst August, King of Hanover, whom they accused of violating the constitution. All seven were fired by the king.

Wilhelm Grimm died in Berlin of an infection at the age of 73.

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Grimm Brothers' Home Page
• Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt (This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition. Andrew Lang's introduction is also included.)
• Works by Wilhelm Grimm at Project Gutenberg