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Martin Gumpert
1897–1955
A doctor by training and a storyteller by instinct, he wrote vivid books that brought medicine, history, and human character together. Forced to leave Nazi Germany, he rebuilt his life in the United States and turned that experience into a wide-ranging literary career.
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Verkettung: Gedichte
by Martin Gumpert
About the author
Born in Berlin in 1897, Martin Gumpert trained as a physician and specialized in dermatology. He also developed a strong interest in medical history, and his writing often joined scientific knowledge with a lively, accessible style.
After serving in the German Army Medical Corps during World War I, he built a medical career in Germany, but as a Jewish writer and doctor he was pushed out under the Nazi regime. He emigrated to the United States in 1936, later became an American citizen, and continued working as both a physician and an author.
Gumpert wrote biography, history, memoir, and medically informed nonfiction. Sources from this conversation note that he published books including Hell in Paradise and Heil Hunger!, and that he shared medical background material with Thomas Mann while Mann was working on Doctor Faustus. He died in New York in 1955.