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Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
About Nils Silfverskiöld
- Nils Otto Silfverskiöld (3 January 1888 – 8 August 1957) was a Swedish Olympic gymnast, orthopedic surgeon and left-wing intellectual.
- As a gymnast he won a gold medal in the Swedish system team event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
- As a surgeon he developed a knee flexion test that was later adapted in a diagnosis of foot and ankle disorders.
- He was employed at the Sabbatsberg Hospital (1927), Serafimerlasarettet (1936) and Karolinska University Hospital (1940). Silfverskiöld was born to a doctor, the head of a pediatric hospital.
- In 1911 he graduated from the medical faculty of the Uppsala University, in 1916 received a doctor's degree, in 1924 presented a PhD on the orthopedics of paralysis in children (German: Orthopädische Studie über Hemiplegia spastica infantilis), and later defended a habilitation.
- His work was devoted to healing disabled people, including those with missing limbs.
- In parallel he taught artistic gymnastics (until 1917) and served as a military doctor in Stockholm.Silfverskiöld had strong anti-Nazi and pro-Soviet sympathies.
- In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War he established a Swedish hospital in Spain to help the Republicans, and later became president of the Swedish-Soviet Federation.Silfverskiöld was married four times.
- His third marriage was in 1932 with Countess Mary von Rosen.
- Her family had good relations with Nazi Germany in general and with Hermann Göring in particular.
- This resulted in a scandal at the wedding of Silfverskiöld and von Rosen, when all the attendants (but not the groom and bride) made the Nazi salute to Göring.Silfverskiöld and von Rosen had a daughter Monica Getz, the ex-wife of American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz.
- She is also a diplomat, educator and activist who founded the National Coalition for Family Justice.
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