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Gottfried Benn
German writer and physician
Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.[1] He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951.[2]
Biography and work
Family and beginnings
Gottfried Benn was born in a Lutheran country parsonage, a few hours from Berlin, the son and grandson of pastors in Mansfeld, now part of Putlitz in the district of Prignitz, Brandenburg.[3] He was educated in Sellin in the Neumark and Frankfurt an der Oder.
Die gehirne gottfried benn biography
To please his father, he studied theology at the University of Marburg and military medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin.[4] After being laid off as a military doctor in 1912, Benn turned to pathology, where he dissected over 200 bodies between October 1912 and November 1913 in Berlin.
Many of his literary works reflect on his time as a pathologist.
In the summer of 1912, Benn sta