Abstract
The article describes the historiographical tradi tion of sport history, a discipline founded by amateur histo rians and sport scientists and then taken over by profes sional historians and social scientists. It explains the differ ent approaches on the background of the extraordinary fast development of modern sport in the 19th and 20th centuries and explains why scholars developed special tools of analy sis in close co-operation with experts from sociology and economics; in doing so the article unfolds some peculiari ties of modern sport as a field of historical and social re search. A discussion of the future of sport history seen as a sub-discipline of general history completes the article; this discussion encompasses themes, periods of study, and the necessity of co-operation with new academic disciplines like media studies.
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