100 years of phoniatrics from the Polish perspective

Hermann Gutzmann is considered to be „The Father of Phoniatrics”. Hugo Stern proposed to establish a phoniatric specialization (1919). Since 1924 phoniatrics has been accredited, nondependent medical faculty worldwide. The first Phoniatric Department in Europe was founded in Prague by Miloslav Seeman. Emil Froschels formed International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). IALP’s official press organ is Folia Phoniatrica, formed in 1947 by Richard Luchsinger, Emil Froschels, Miloslav Seeman and Jean Tarneaud. In 1970 European phoniatrists established Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP). In Poland Jan Siestrzynski, Wladyslaw Oltuszewski, Aleksandra Mitrinowicz -Modrzejewska, Benedykt Dylewski, Maria Łączkowska, Leon Handzel, Er win Mozolewski, Stanislaw Klajman and others have made a significant contribution to the development of this discipline of medicine. Antoni Pruszewicz is a founder of the first Audiology and Phoniatrics Department and audiology and phoniatric specialization (1982; 2001).