Martin Gumpert
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Martin Gumpert (November 12, 1897 - April 18, 1955) was a 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.)
[edit] Literary works
- Hahnemann Biographie, 1934
- Das Leben für die Idee, 1935
- Dunant, 1938
- Hell in Paradise, 1939
- Heil Hunger!, 1940
- You are younger than you think, 1944
- Birthday, 1947
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