Louis "Lou" Otten (November 5, 1883 in

Rijswijk Rijswijk (), formerly known as Ryswick ( ) in English, is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was 59.642 in 2024, and it has an area of , of which is water. The municipality also i ...

– November 7, 1946 in

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

) was a Dutch

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who competed in the

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. He was a member of the Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament. He was also a doctor and scientist credited as the inventor of the

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nic vaccine during his tenure at

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, Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia). Otten was elected a corresponding member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

in 1934.

References

External links

Louis Otten at databaseOlympics.com
* 1883 births 1946 deaths Men's association football defenders Dutch men's footballers Footballers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Olympic footballers for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Netherlands men's international footballers Sportspeople from Rijswijk Olympic medalists in football Footballers from South Holland 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub