Martin Gumpert
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Martin S Gumpert (November 12, 1897 – April 18, 1955) was a Jewish German-born American physician and writer.
Career
In 1936, Gumpert went to America. In 1942, he became a US citizen.[citation needed]
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.)
Career
In 1936, Gumpert went to America. In 1942, he became a US citizen.[citation needed]
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[1])
- 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
Biographical references in German
- Karin Geiger: Der diagnostische Blick – Martin Gumpert als Arzt, Medizinhistoriker und ärztlicher Schriftsteller. Gardez!-Verlag, Remscheid 2004, ISBN 3-89796-145-8 (Dissertation, University of Münster 2003)
- Jutta Ittner: Augenzeuge im Dienst der Wahrheit. Leben und literarisches Werk Martin Gumperts (1897-1955). Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-89528-170-0 (Dissertation, University of Hamburg 1994)
- Ulrike Keim: Ein außergewöhnliches Leben in zwei Welten – Der Arzt, Dichter, Forscher und Schriftsteller Martin Gumpert. Hentrich und Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-95565-544-0.
- Markwart Michler: Gumpert, Martin. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5, p. 306.
- Doina Rosenberg: Martin Gumpert – Arzt und Schriftsteller. Dissertation, FU Berlin 2000
- Heinz Saueressig: Im Winkel der Medizingeschichte. Der Lebensweg des Dermatologen Martin Gumpert. Basotherm Förderkreis, Biberach an der Riss 1987. 20 pages.
- Andreas Wittbrodt: Ein gebildeter Sozialarzt. Die Lebensform des Migranten Martin Gumpert in Berlin und New York im Spiegel der Autobiographik. In: Emigrantenschicksale. Einfluss der jüdischen Emigranten auf Sozialpolitik und Wissenschaft in den Aufnahmeländern. Frankfurt am Main 2004, p155–167
References
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House. pp. 508. ISBN 0-89526-571-0.
External links
- Works by Martin Gumpert at Project Gutenberg
- Martin Gumpert Papers on You are Younger Than You Think at Dartmouth College Library
- Martin Gumpert Archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Physicians from Berlin
- Jewish dermatologists
- German medical historians
- American medical historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- German emigrants to the United States
- Writers from Berlin
- People from the Province of Brandenburg
- 1897 births
- 1955 deaths
- German male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- German writer stubs
- German medical biography stubs
- American medical biography stubs
- American science historian stubs