Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980) by unknown photographer, 1977 © UPPA/Photoshot
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Guttmann, Sir Ludwig (1899–1980), neurosurgeon
D. Whitteridge
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Guttmann, Sir Ludwig (1899–1980), neurosurgeon, was born on 3 July 1899 in Tost, Upper Silesia, into a Jewish family, the first born, and the only son, among the four children of Bernhard Guttmann, an innkeeper and distiller, and his wife, Dorothea, daughter of ...