page_title: Physician writer
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Physician writer / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Charcoal/pastel portrait of Axel Munthe (1857-1949)
context_page_description: Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.
  The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, arranged in alphabetical order.
context_section_description: Carl Ludwig Emil Aarestrup (1800–1856) Danish erotic poet
  Mariano Azuela (1873–1952) Mexican physician in Pancho Villa's army; in 1949 he received a National Prize for Literature
  Doris Bell Ball (1897–1987) wrote under the pseudonym "Josephine Bell"; a British detective novelist who wrote more than forty books; a founding member of the Crime Writers Association
  Pío Baroja y Nessi (1872–1956) Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98; admired by Hemingway
  Nérée Beauchemin (1850–1931) Québécois poet who attempted to produce a national literature
  Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) English poet and dramatist whose central theme was death
  Gottfried Benn (1886–1956) German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet
  Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (1844–1930) English poet, the only physician to hold the honour of poet laureate (1913)
  Georg Büchner (1813–1837) German dramatist and writer of prose
  Ludwig Büchner (1824–1899) German philosopher and physiologist who became one of the exponents of 19th century scientific materialism
  Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) Russian novelist and playwright; author of The Master and Margarita
  Hans Carossa (1878–1956) German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his innere Emigration (inner emigration) during the Nazi era.
  Louis-Ferdinand Céline pen name of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (1894–1961) developed a new style of writing that modernized both French and World literature
  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) celebrated Russian short-story writer and playwright
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) British author of Sherlock Holmes fame
  Géza Csáth (né József Brenner) (1887–1919) Hungarian writer, playwright, musician, music critic and psychiatrist
  Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) prolific English novelist and short story writer; most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925)
  Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho (1839–1871) was a Portuguese doctor and writer.
  Alfred Döblin (1878–1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
  William Henry Drummond (1854–1907) Irish-Canadian poet of the habitant
  Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) French author who, in 1920, published Confession de minuit featuring the anti-hero Salavin; in 1935, elected member of Académie française
  Havelock Ellis (1859–1940) British writer and poet, author of The Psychology of Sex
  Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934) African-American writer who was an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance, primarily as a novelist, but also as a musician
  R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943) British writer of detective stories, most featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story
  William Gilbert (author) (1804–1890) English author and father of W. S. Gilbert
  Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957) Irish ear surgeon, one of the most prominent Dublin wits and best known as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
  Enrique González Martínez (1871–1952) Mexican poet and diplomat, considered to be primarily Modernist in nature, with elements of French symbolism
  Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895) English poet, intimate member of the circle of friends and followers of Rossetti
  William Alexander Hammond (1828–1900) pioneering American neurologist and the Surgeon General of the United States Army during the American Civil War
  Henry Head (1861–1940) English neurologist who conducted pioneering studies on the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894) one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century; helped found the literary magazine The Atlantic Monthly, his collected essays published as The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, highly popular in its day
  Richard Huelsenbeck (1892–1974) poet and a founder and historian of Dada.
  David H. Keller (1880–1966) (most often published as David H. Keller, MD, but also known by the pseudonyms Monk Smith, Matth
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