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Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981

LC control no.n 79078168
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Personal name headingWertham, Fredric, 1895-1981
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Variant(s)Wertheimer, Frederick Ignace, 1895-1981
Wertheimer, F. I. (Frederick Ignace), 1895-1981
Wertham, Frederic, 1895-1981
Wertham, Frederic, 1895-
Wertheimer, Friedrich Ignatz, 1895-1981
Birth date1895-03-20
Death date1981-11-18
Place of birthMunich (Germany)
Place of deathKempton (Pa.)
Field of activityPsychiatry
Profession or occupationPsychiatrists
Found inAuthor's The significance of the physical constitution in mental disease.
LC data base, 9-27-90 (hdg.: Wertham, Frederic, 1985- ; usage: Fredric Wertham, Frederic Wertham, F.I. Wertheimer) LC manual auth. cd. (name originally: Frederick Ignace Wertheimer)
Contem. auth., v. 105 (Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981)
Nuremberg City Archives, Sept. 28, 2012 (Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer; born Mar. 20, 1895; holding C 27/IV of the municipal public records office, birth registry 521, entry 1302)
Wikipedia, viewed February 6, 2015 (Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895-November 18, 1981) was a German-born American psychiatrist and crusading author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of violent imagery in mass media and comic books on the development of children; born in Munich; died in Kempton, Pennsylvania; born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer, changed his name in 1927 when he became an American citizen)
Associated languageeng