| LC control no. | n 50024218 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Guttmann, Ludwig, 1899-1980 |
| Variant(s) | Guttmann, Ludwig, Sir, 1899- |
| Located | Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) |
| Birth date | 1899-07-03 |
| Death date | 1980-03-18 |
| Place of birth | Tost (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Medicine People with disabilities |
| Affiliation | Paralympic Games |
| Profession or occupation | Neurologists |
| Found in | Kessel, F. K. Neuro-Traumatologie mit Einschluss der Grenzgebiete, 1969. The best of men [VR] 2014: container, subj. (Dr. Ludwig Guttmann ; England's Stoke Mandeville hospital during World War II ; Sir Ludwig Guttmann) Wikipedia, Feb. 11, 2014 (Ludwig Guttmann ; Professor Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann, CBE, FRS (3 July 1899 - 18 March 1980) was a German-born British neurologist who established the Paralympic Games in England. The Jewish doctor, who had fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability ; Ludwig Guttmann, the eldest child of the family, was born in Tost, within Upper Silesia, Germany (now Toszek, Poland) on 3 July 1899. His family moved when he was three years old to the Silesia city of Konigshutte) |
| Associated language | eng |
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