Julian Gumperz [SEP] place of death
Julian Gumperz
Julian Gumperz (May 12, 1898 in New York City – February 1972 in Gaylordsville, Connecticut) was a United States-born German sociologist, communist activist, publicist, and translator.
Institute for Social Research.
Julian Gumperz studied political economy at Halle University. He left university as a committed Marxist and published an anti-war magazine called Der Gegner. One of its contributors was George Grosz.
Gumperz married Hede Massing. In her autobiography she described him as being refined, soft-spoken
United States. From 1923 to 1944, he headed the American branch of Soviet news agency Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). Employees at TASS included Eugene Lyons. According to British security services records, he was expelled from the United States in 1925 due to his connection with various Communist front organisations. In 1926 at his home on St. Luke's Place, he and his wife received Hede Massing and Julian Gumperz during a long stay in the United States.
In the late 1920s he formed a relationship with