Morrie Schwartz
Morris S. Schwartz ( born December 20, 1916 in New York City; † November 4, 1995 in Newton, Massachusetts) was an American sociologist. He gained greater fame posthumously for his role in the book Tuesdays with Morrie (1998).
Schwartz grew up in New York City in a Jewish neighborhood. He received his bachelor after his studies at City College in New York. His master he graduated in 1946 and his Ph.D. 1951 at the University of Chicago. He wrote three books on mental disorders in the 1950s and 60s. In addition, he taught at the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University. Among his students was the future sports journalist Mitch Albom. Schwartz taught on his 70th birthday out until it was impossible for him by his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
After seeing Schwartz on the television program Nightline where he talked about his illness, Albom went to his former mentor. Together they wrote in 1995 during the last days of the book Tuesdays with Morrie Schwartz. It was released in the U.S. in 1997 and has more than six years out on the bestseller list of USA Today. In the television film adaptation of Morrie Schwartz in 1999 by Jack Lemmon was played.
Works
- Alfred Hodgin: The Mental Hospital: A Study of Institutional Participation in Psychiatric Illness and Treatment. Basic Books 1958, ISBN 978-1-59147-617-7
- Charlotte Green Schwartz: Social Approaches to Mental Patient Care Columbia University Press 1964
- With Emmy Lanning Shockley: The Nurse and the Mental Patient: A Study in Interpersonal Relations. Wiley 1966, ISBN 9780471766100
- Letting Go: Morrie 's Reflections on Living While Dying. Walker & Company, 1996, ISBN 9780802713155 German edition: wisdom of life. Goldmann 2005, ISBN 978-3442458578
Swell
- " Tuesdays With Morrie ": Produces Winfrey TV movie - on CNN on 12 February 1999
- Literature by and about Morrie Schwartz in the catalog that German national library
- Sociologist ( 20th century)
- University teachers ( Brandeis University)
- Americans
- Born 1916
- Died in 1995
- Man