Max Gerson

Max Gerson ( born October 10, 1881 in Wongrowitz, German Empire, now Poland, † March 8, 1959 in New York) was a physician and inventor of the controversial Gerson therapy, which should help for migraine and other diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer.

Life

Gerson was born in 1881 in what was then belonging to Germany Wągrowiec. He studied medicine in Breslau, Würzburg, Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau. He became a doctor of internal and nervous diseases in Bielefeld. In 1930, he worked at Urban Hospital in Berlin. As a Jew, he fled Germany in 1933 and emigrated first to Vienna, where he worked at the Westend Sanatorium, 1935, he finally moved to France and the USA in 1936 where he settled down in New York City and became a U.S. citizen. Gerson died in 1959 of pneumonia.