Martin Gumpert

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.)

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

Martin Gumpert