Louis Otten
Louis "Lou" Otten (born November 5, 1883 in Rijswijk , † November 7, 1946 in The Hague ) was a Dutch football player , doctor and professor of medicine.
The "reliable left-back " played for Quick Den Haag in the 1900s and 1910s and was part of the 1908 championship team . He also played twelve international matches for the Dutch national team from 1907 to 1911 , four of them as team captain . In 1908 he was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London.
Otten was a doctor of medicine and professor of medicine. He discovered a vaccine against the bubonic plague ; In 1934 he first tried live vaccination on Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies , where he worked for the Pasteur Institute in Bandung . During the Second World War he was a Japanese prisoner of war.
Web links
- Louis Otten in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ IFFHS
- ↑ History Quicks ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the club's website, viewed on January 7, 2009
- ↑ Information on the international match against Belgium in 1908 on the IFFHS website, viewed on January 7, 2009
- ↑ CIBA magazine 73, Wehr / Baden 1955, p. 2406, online version (PDF; 1.6 MB) viewed on January 7, 2009
- ↑ Current Science, Vol. 67 No. 8 of October 25, 1994, online version (PDF; 150 kB) viewed on January 7, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otten, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otten, Lou |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player and medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rijswijk |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1946 |
| Place of death | The hague |