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

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

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Date of birth	November 12, 1897
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Date of death	April 18, 1955
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