Born in 1903 in Galicia, Austria. Graduated Carpenter school in 1914. Graduated Waller High school in 1917. Dr. Guttman received his M.D. in 1927 from the Chicago Medical School. He took his internship at Columbus Hospital in Chicago. He took his post graduate training at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Introduced the anesthetic avertin into the United States in 1929.