USA Today: Google Doodle celebrates Ludwig Guttmann, 'father of the Paralympic movement'
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Ludwig Guttmann
Sir Ludwig Guttmann was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games. A Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, Guttmann was a founding father of organized physical activities for people with disabilities.
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science · German-Polish neurologist (1899–1980) · neurologist · neurosurgeon · physician · also Ludwig Guttmann, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Ludwig Guttman, Guttmann
Born 3 July 1899 · Died 18 March 1980 · Q76912
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2019· 1 entry
The National Paralympic Heritage Centre, a small accessible museum, was opened at Stoke Mandeville Stadium celebrating the birthplace of the Paralympics, sharing the collections of the early Paralympic Movement and the c
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2016· 1 entry
Deutsche Olympischer Sportbund: Ludwig Guttmann - Begründer der Paralympics
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2015· 1 entry
Published “The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement” in PLOS Medicine — cited 4,811 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Germany's Sports Hall of Fame (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Stimme: Ludwig Guttmann: Der «De Coubertin der Gelähmten»
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-03-18.
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1972).
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1966· 1 entry
But continued his involvement with sport
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1961· 2 entries
Guttmann founded the British Sports Association for the Disabled, which would later become known as the English Federation of Disability Sport
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Guttmann founded the International Medical Society of Paraplegia, now the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS); he was the inaugural president of the society, a position that he held until 1970
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1960· 2 entries
When the International Stoke Mandeville Games were held alongside the official 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
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And he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966
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1933· 1 entry
Under the Nuremberg Laws, and his title was changed to Krankenbehandler (one who treats the sick)
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1919· 1 entry
And received his Doctorate of Medicine in 1924
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1917· 1 entry
While volunteering at an accident hospital in Königshütte, he encountered his first paraplegic patient, a coal miner with a spinal fracture who later died of sepsis
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-07-03.
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