GUMBEL, EMIL JULIUS
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GUMBEL, EMIL JULIUS (1891–1966), mathematician and pacifist; his documentation
on political murders, published in 1922, established him as one of
Germany's noted pacifists. Born to a Munich banker, he completed studies in
mathematics and economics in July 1914, just before volunteering for military
service. The war soon converted him to pacifism; in 1915 he joined the Bund
Neues Vaterland, an organization committed to Franco-German understanding.
By January 1922, when the Bund became the Deutsche Liga fu¨r Menschenrechte
(German League for Human Rights), Gumbel was widely reviled for
promoting reconciliation with France and disclosing information on Femegericht*
and the Black Reichswehr.* Among his significant writings were Vier
Jahre Lu¨ge (Four years of lies), published in 1919, and Vier Jahre politischer
Mord (Four years of political murder), published in 1922. He dealt with the
same themes, both in Germany and abroad, in lectures presented before pacifist
groups and articles published in Die Weltbu¨hne,* Menschenrechte, and several
newspapers.*
In 1923 Gumbel completed his Habilitation in statistics at Heidelberg. Appointed
Privatdozent at the university, he was soon in trouble with colleagues
and students for comments made about the war. Although his scholarship in
mathematics bred international esteem, when Baden's Education Ministry reluctantly
appointed him ausserordentlicher Professor in 1931, Heidelberg's social
politics spawned a right-radical student campaign (supported by a faculty majority)
that demanded his termination. In mid-1932 riots finally forced the university
to dismiss its embarrassing professor. An invitation to teach in Paris was
followed in 1934 by appointment as Ma?ˆtre de Recherches at Lyons. Fleeing to
the United States in 1939, he taught during 1940–1966 at several colleges (including
Columbia University). Also interested in philosophy, he translated Bertrand
Russell into German.
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