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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
American physician and writer
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
12 November 1897(Berlin, Germany)
Death:
18 April 1955(New York City, New York, U.S.A.)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Martin S Gumpert (November 12, 1897 – April 18, 1955) was a Jewish German-born American physician and writer.
In 1936, he went to America. In 1942, he became a US citizen. Gumpert provided the German author Thomas Mann with information about the course of the disease of syphilis. Mann used this information in writing his Faust novel, Doktor Faustus: das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde. (Cited by Gunilla Bergsten in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (University of Chicago Press, 1963, p. 57.)
Literary works
- Hahnemann Biographie, 1934
- Das Leben für die Idee, 1935
- Dunant: The Story of the Red Cross, 1938 (translated by Whittaker Chambers)
- Hell in Paradise, 1939
- Heil Hunger!, 1940
- You are younger than you think, 1944
- First Papers" 1945 Preface by Thomas Mann, Dell, Sloan & Pearce, New York
- Hahnemann; The Adventurous Career of a Medical Rebel" 1945, LB Fischer, New York
- Birthday, 1947
- The Anatomy of Happiness, 1951, McGraw-Hill
- You and Your Doctor, 1952, Bobbs-Merrill