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Guido Werdnig

Austrian physician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ87534 ↗
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Guido Werdnig (Ratschach, 20 June 1844 – 26 April 1919) was an Austrian neurologist.

Werdnig, together with Johann Hoffmann of the University of Heidelberg, were the first doctors to describe Werdnig–Hoffmann disease, now known as spinal muscular atrophy type 1.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Guido Werdnig” as austrian physician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1844, 1919—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1844-06-20. The account is most persuasive where Guido, Werdnig and Austrian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as austrian physician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q87534. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1844 and 1919.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guido Werdnig” 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.