Martin Gumpert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Martin Gumpert

American physician and writer

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1897

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1955

Profession: physician, historian, physician writer, university teacher, medical historian

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.)