Hermann Gutzmann Sr.

Hermann Gutzmann Sr.

Hermann Gutzmann Sr. (Born January 29, 1865 in Bütow , Pomerania; † November 4, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German physician and founder of phoniatrics in Germany.

Life

Hermann Gutzmann was born in Bütow as the first of a total of seven children. In 1873 the family moved to Berlin. His father Albert Gutzmann continued his activity there as a teacher for the deaf and dumb at the first municipal school for the deaf and dumb in Berlin . In 1897 he wrote a paper The stuttering and its thorough elimination by a methodically ordered and practically tested procedure , dealt intensively with speech disorders in his work in Berlin in addition to his teaching activities.

Probably under this impression, Hermann studied medicine at the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium in 1883 after graduating from high school . During his studies he became a member of the Guilelmia country team . He completed the compulsory assistantship a. with the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann . His doctorate, completed in 1887, was entitled: About stuttering . In 1891 he opened a private outpatient clinic for people with speech disorders, which moved several times within Berlin until he founded a sanatorium for people with speech disorders in Berlin-Zehlendorf in 1896 .

He completed his habilitation on the subject of speech disorders as a subject of clinical instruction in 1905. This year is considered to be the founding year of the Phoniatrics department he represents . In the following year Herrmann Gutzmann appears in the course catalog of the Berlin University, initially under the chapter "Internal Medicine". Some of his courses were offered privatissime in his private phonetics laboratory. In 1912 he was appointed professor at his clinic by his friend Gustav Killian , the head of the ENT university clinic at the Charité .

Gustav Killian among his colleagues in the Charité in 1912. Third from the left (in a black suit) Hermann Gutzmann senior, right next to him Gustav Killian

In addition to his teaching and training activities, he devoted himself intensively to the practice treatment of speech impaired people , both at the Charité and at his private sanatorium. He showed a lively publication activity on various subjects in the field (over 300 scientific papers, congresses, lectures, 13 books, textbook in two editions, see below).

During the First World War , his sanatorium was run as a special hospital and the bed capacity was increased from 12 to 24 beds. Through the treatment of the often traumatized war casualties, Gutzmann came to the realization that not only exercise treatment, but also psychotherapy was often necessary to overcome language disorders.

Hermann Gutzman Sr. died in 1922 of sepsis . According to oral tradition, he contracted this from a stab wound on a gramophone needle while researching the voice . He left three daughters and a son, Hermann Gutzmann jr. (1892–1972), who later also continued his father's legacy as a phoniatrist in Berlin.

Gutzmann students (selection)

• Harold Zumsteeg (* 1874 † 1963)
• Max Nadoleczny (* 1874 † 1940)
• Emil Fröschels (* 1884 † 1972)
• Miloslav Seeman (* 1892 † 1975)
• Hugo Stern (* 1877 † 1941)
• Wladyslaw Oltuszewski (* 1855 † 1922)
• Rudolf Schilling (* 1876 † 1964)
• Rauha Hammar (* 1878 † 1965)

Publications (selection)

• Albert and Hermann Gutzmann (eds.): Medical-pedagogical monthly for the entire speech medicine . Fischer, Berlin 1891, continued from 1913 by Hermann G. under the title "VOX".
• Child's language and speech defects . 1st edition. JJ Weber's illustrated books, Leipzig 1894.
• The social significance of language disorders . Fischer, Jena 1904.
• Physiology of voice and language . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1909, DNB  580054802 .
• Voice and language disorders in war casualties . In: Otto von Schjerning (Hrsg.): Handbook of medical experience in the world wars 1914/1918 . tape 6 . Barth, Leipzig 1921, DNB  36609050X , Chapter VII.
• Speech Medicine - Lectures on language disorders with a special focus on therapy . edited after death and edited by H. Zumsteeg, 3rd edition. Fischer's medical bookshop, Berlin 1923, DNB  573620091 .

literature

• Jochen Gosepath:  Gutzmann, Hermann Carl Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 357 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Manfred Gross: 30 years of speech therapy in Germany. Renate Gross Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-926468-07-6 .
• Thomas Brauer, Anne Aumüller, Jennifer Schwarz: Speech therapy. Who is who? Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 2004, ISBN 3-8248-0469-7
• Heinz Zehmisch: Lecture on the occasion of a ceremony of the Berlin Charité in memory of Hermann Gutzmann sen. on January 29, 2005 ( PDF , 2.55 MB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Gutzmann sen. in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Gutzmanns. From Heinz Zehmisch after a lecture on the occasion of a ceremony of the Berlin Charité in memory of Hermann Gutzmann sen. on January 29, 2005, p. 4 ( Memento of the original of September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.7 MB)