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Gerson Schuch

Olympic volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ5553145 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gérson Albino Schuch (born 22 January 1946) is a Brazilian former volleyball player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He played on the team that won the silver medal at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. He was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Editorial summary

“Gerson Schuch” enters the record as olympic volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gerson, Schuch and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1968, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-01-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gerson, Schuch and Olympic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Gerson Schuch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gerson, Schuch and Olympic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5553145. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1968 and 1967.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Gerson Schuch”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gerson Schuch primary sources, Gerson Schuch archive and Gerson research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Gerson Schuch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.