Carl Spengler (30 June 1860 - 15 September 1937) was a Swiss surgeon, pulmonologist and bacteriologist. He founded what is probably the oldest international ice hockey tournament, the Spengler Cup.

Career

Spengler's father Alexander Spengler was the discoverer of the healing effects of the high altitude climate of Davos. Carl Spengler was an enthusiastic sportsman in his youth. He was probably the first person to try skiing in the Alps. His father Alexander Spengler was given a pair of Sami hunting skis by a Nordic patient in 1873.

Spengler promoted the then new sport of ice hockey when his son Alexander K. Spengler founded the HC Davos with his mates in 1921. In 1923, he founded the famous Spengler Cup. He wanted to offer the once hostile nations of Europe the opportunity to measure their strength in peaceful combat and to shake hands in a spirit of comradeship.

Spengler worked for a time as an researcher in immunology with Robert Koch in Berlin. Back in Davos, he published over 70 scientific papers, many of which dealt with the fight against tuberculosis and other plagues. He was a tireless researcher of evidence-based medicine.[1] [2]

References

  1. ↑ Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre: Zugleich Fortsetzung des Biographischen Lexikons der Hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker, Band 1, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, page 1482f.
  2. ↑ obituary by R.T. Hewlett, Nature, November 6, 1937 p. 797. https://doi.org/10.1038/140797b0
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