Martin Gumpert

Martin 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^[1])
Hell in Paradise, 1939
Heil Hunger!, 1940
You are younger than you think, 1944
Birthday, 1947

References

^ [|Chambers, Whittaker] (1952). Witness. Random House. pp. 508. ISBN 0-89526-571-0.

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Name	Gumpert Martin
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Date of birth	November 12, 1897
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Date of death	April 18, 1955
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