Original: Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895 - November 18, 1981) was a Jewish German-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.
Simplified: Fredric Wertham (20 March 1895 - 18 November 1981) was a Jewish German-American psychiatrist. He was an author who wrote about images in media.