Godfrey Edward Arnold

Godfrey Edward Arnold, English Godfrey Edward Arnold ( born January 6, 1914 in Olomouc, † July 5, 1989 in Vienna) was an American physician of Austrian descent. In his special field of Phoniatrics, he explored language errors and disorders of the vocal cords.

Life

Arnold was the son of Hofopernsängers Anton Arnold and attended the Vienna Theresianumgasse. He was (as Medic) graduate of the University of Vienna and ( as pianist ) of the State Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Through several study visits to Hermann Gutzmann jun. (1892-1972) in Berlin, he deepened his knowledge phoniatric. Other teachers were Max Nadoleczny (1874-1940) and Hugo Stern ( 1877-1941 ). As the successor of his teacher Emil Froschels Arnold directed until 1945, the voice and speech clinic of the Vienna Throat Clinic at the Vienna General Hospital ( the hospital in 1938 was incorporated together with the Department of Laryngology in the First ENT Clinic, from 1970 in the II ENT clinic ). How Froschels and Gutzmann in the First World War also dealt with Arnold at this time due to the war focus on wounded soldiers with speech and voice disorders. About his experience gained here Arnold wrote the work The traumatic and constitutional disorders of voice and speech. Together with the Swiss Phoniater Richard Luchsinger (1900-1993) he wrote the textbook of voice and speech therapy ( first edition 1949). His successor at the Vienna Throat Clinic was the Phoniater and singer Vincent Imre.

In 1949 he emigrated to the USA and lived until 1963 in New York, where he worked among other things on " National Hospital for Speech Disorders " and then as Head of Research at the ear, nose and throat department of the hospital, " New York Eye and Ear Infirmary " had. In 1962, he developed the injection of Teflon method in the vocal folds and coined the following year with Hans von Leden the term " phonosurgery ". From 1963 to 1983 he worked in Jackson, Mississippi, where he founded the ENT department of the Hospital of the University of Mississippi and from 1963 to 1979 was its director. He is the author of the relevant articles on language and speech disorders in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Arnold was married since 1941 and had a daughter.

Honors

Arnold received in 1982 the highest award of " American Speech-Language - Hearing Association " ( ASHA ). In 1988 he became carriers of the Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in gold.