Metadata: Guttmann, Sir Ludwig (1899-1980)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Wellcome Collection
- Holding institution (official language):
- Wellcome Collection
- Postal address:
- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomNW1 2BE
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7611 8722
- Web address:
- https://wellcomecollection.org
- Reference number:
- PP/GUT
- Title:
- Guttmann, Sir Ludwig (1899-1980)
- Title (official language):
- Guttmann, Sir Ludwig (1899-1980)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Guttmann, Sir, Ludwig, 1899-1980, Knight, neurologist
- Date(s):
- 1914/1981
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 7 boxes, 1 large box, 1 oversize item
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Sir Ludwig Guttmann covering most of his career, although there is relatively little on the earlier years in Germany before he emigrated with his family to the UK in 1939. There is some personal and biographical material, and a typescript autobiography. There are a number of items relating to Stoke Mandeville Hospital and its work in the rehabilitation of paraplegics, which Sir Ludwig pioneered. There is also some material, mostly photographs, relating to the International Paralympics which developed from his initiatives at Stoke Mandeville.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born, 1899; worked as medical orderly in the accident hospital at Konigshütte, 1917-1918; Studied medicine in Breslau, Würzburg and Freiburg; MD Freiburg, and began working with neurologist Professor Otfrid Foerster in Breslau, 1924; went to Hamburg to run a neurosurgical service in a municipal psychiatric hospital, 1928; returned to Breslau as Foerster's first assistant, 1929; Privatdozent, 1930; became neurologist and neurosurgeon to the Jewish hospital in Breslau, 1933; medical director of the Jewish hospital in Breslau, 1937; Witnessed the Kristalnacht, and was able to save a number of individuals by admitting them to the hospital, 1938; he and his family granted visas to go to England; invited to Oxford; started work in the Nuffield department of neurosurgery in the Radcliffe Infirmary under Hugh Cairns, 1939; invited to start a centre for paraplegics in the Emergency Medical Service Hospital at Stoke Mandeville, 1943; Centre opened and became an internationally renowned institution which revolutionised the treatment and management of paraplegia, 1944; Inception of sports programme at Stoke Mandeville, 1947; died, 1980.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Guttmann, Ludwig
- Subject terms:
- Health and medical matters
- People with disabilities
- Personal records
- Sports
- Access, restrictions:
- The material is available in the library at Wellcome Collection subject to the usual conditions of access.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gqhkfsft
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
- Wellcome Library
