Emil Julius Gumbel [SEP] place of death
Emil Julius Gumbel
Emil Julius Gumbel (18 July 1891, Munich – 10 September 1966, New York City) was a German mathematician and political writer.
Born to a prominent Jewish family in Württemberg, he graduated from the University of Munich shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. He was Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Heidelberg.
Following the murder of a friend, he attended the trial where he saw that the judge completely ignored evidence against the Nazi Brownshirts. Horrified, he ardently investigated
he died, Gumbel's papers were made a part of "The Emil J. Gumbel Collection, Political Papers of an Anti-Nazi Scholar in Weimar and Exile". These papers include reels of microfilm that document his activities against the Nazis.
External links.
- Emil Julius Gumbel Papers at University of Chicago Library
- Emil J. Gumbel Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
- Drawing depicting E. J. Gumbel