Martin Gumpert

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

External links

• Works by Martin Gumpert at Project Gutenberg
• Martin Gumpert Papers on You are Younger Than You Think at Dartmouth College Library