60 Years of Folia – Review and Comparison of Two General Journals in Our Field

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cate with each other, also across the borders. The interest in phoniatrics and logopedics was taken over by a rising second generation of medical doctors working in the field of phoniatrics. Against this background the journal Folia Phoniatrica was founded by Richard Luchsinger (Zurich), Miloslav Seeman (Prague), and Jean Tarneaud (Paris). The name Folia Phoniatrica did fit well in the trend of that after-war time. Many ‘Folias’ were founded, but not many survived until today. On initiative of the IALP the name was modified to Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica in 1994, but the Latin language was kept. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica now exists 60 years and this is more than worth celebrating. We will do this by a novelty in the history of Folia . For the first time an article, written by Jurgen Wendler, is accompanied by audio-visual illustrations. This article is a slightly modified version of an invited lecture presented at the 7th PanEuropean Voice Conference (PEVoC) in Groningen in 2007. This conference carried the motto ‘60 Years of Voice Research in Groningen’, because Jw. van den Berg started the research on the production of vowels and the basis of human sound – the production of voice – in Groningen in 1947. Wendler’s article con centrates on the phoniatricians that also showed a great interest in (semi)-professional singing. This issue of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica marks the end of the 60th volume of the international scientific journal of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). The IALP was founded in 1924, in the interbellum between the two world wars, on instigation of Emil Froeschels from Vienna and a few colleagues, Stern, Stein, Rothe and Trojan. International conferences were held in different places in Europe, which series was unfortunately interrupted by the Second World War. The last IALP international conference was held in Copenhagen in 1936, the first after-war conference was held 14 years later in Amsterdam in 1950. In these 14 years several well-known colleagues had died but, fortunately, many of the leading European phoniatricians could escape to a safer place in the world (many were Jewish). The conference in Amsterdam was held in a joyful atmosphere, renewing acquaintance after the war. Many pre-war specialized journals in the field had ceased publication, so in effect by the end of the war no single specialized journal in the field was available to the clinicians. There was a clearly recognized need to provide some means whereby professionals working in the field of phoniatrics and logopedics could develop their interest, present research results, publish papers of scientific and practical importance and in this way communiPublished online: November 11, 2008