Hermann Gutzmann | |
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Born | |
Died | 4 November 1922 | (aged 57)
Occupation | Physician |
Children | Hermann Gutzmann, Jr. |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Berlin |
Thesis | Über das Stottern (1887) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Medicine |
Sub-discipline | Voice and speech pathology |
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Hermann Carl Albert Gutzmann, Sr. (29 January 1865 – 4 November 1922) was a German physician. He is considered the founder of phoniatrics as a medical discipline.[2][3]
Hermann Gutzmann was born into a Jewish family in Bütow, Pomerania, in 1865.[2] His father, Albert Gutzmann , was a prominent teacher for the deaf and dumb.[4]
He graduated from the Friedrichswerdersches GymnasiumErnst von Bergmann, Carl Gerhardt, and others.[5] He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Berlin in 1887, with the dissertation Über das Stottern ("On Stuttering").[2]
in 1883, and went on to study medicine in Berlin underFrom 1889 Gutzmann practised as a specialist in diseases of the vocal organs, and, together with his father, he founded in 1890 the journal Medizinisch-pädagogische Monatsschrift für die gesamte Sprachheilkunde.[6] In 1891 he established an outpatient clinic for the speech-impaired in Berlin, which was moved to the Medizinische Poliklinik in 1907 and affiliated with the Charité Hospital in 1912. From 1896 Gutzmann also directed a private clinic and sanatorium for the speech-impaired in Zehlendorf.[1] He completed his habilitation in 1905 on the basis of his work Über die Atmungsstörungen beim Stottern ("On Respiratory Disorders and Stuttering"). In his inaugural lecture , he outlined the close relationship of speech therapy to other areas of medical practice.[6]
During World War I, Gutzmann ran a treatment centre for traumatized soldiers who had developed speech and voice disorders.[7]
Gutzmann published 13 books and over 300 scientific papers in his lifetime.[1] He was a member of the Prussian State Health Council, an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Experimental Phonetics, secretary of the Berlin Laryngological Society, and a member of various learned societies.[6]
He died of sepsis in November 1922 after suffering a stab wound from a gramophone needle.[2]
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