Peter Bamm

{{Short description|German writer}} {{no footnotes|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Peter Bamm | image =  | caption = | birth_name = Curt Emmrich | birth_date = {{birth date|1897|10|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hochneukirch, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|1975|3|30|1897|10|20|df=yes}} | death_place = Zollikon, Switzerland | occupation = Writer, journalist, physician | language = German | nationality = German | genre = Essay, travel writing, biography, journalism | notable_works = * ''Die unsichtbare Flagge''<br>* ''Alexander oder die Verwandlung der Welt'' | awards = Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany }} '''Peter Bamm''' (a pen name; his real name was '''Curt Emmrich'''; 20 October 1897 in Hochneukirch, now part of Jüchen, Germany – 30 March 1975 in Zollikon, Switzerland) was a German writer.

Peter Bamm volunteered for military service in World War I, after which he studied medicine and sinology in Munich, Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau. As a ship's doctor he travelled the world a great deal before eventually settling in Berlin-Wedding.

During World War II he served as a military doctor on the Russian Front, and later described his experiences in the book {{lang|de|Die Unsichtbare Flagge}} (''The Invisible Flag''). After the war he travelled for study purposes between 1952 and 1957 in the Near and Middle East, after which he wrote as a journalist and feature writer for a number of Berlin newspapers.

He is buried in the Stöcken Cemetery in Hanover.

== Works == Peter Bamm published many journalistic pieces, many of them extremely witty and ironic. He also wrote scientific and medical essays, culture-historical travel books and an autobiography.

* ''Ex ovo'' (''"Out of the Egg"'') (essays about medicine), 1948 * ''Die unsichtbare Flagge'' (''"The Invisible Flag"'') (account of his war experiences), 1952 * ''Frühe Stätten der Christenheit'' (''"Early Sites of Christianity"'') (travel book), 1955 * ''Wiege unserer Welt'' (''"Cradle of Our World"''), 1958 (ed.) * ''Welten des Glaubens'' (''"Worlds of Faith"''), 1959 * ''Frühe Stätten der Christenheit'' (''"The Kingdoms of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles to the Middle Ages"''), 1959 * ''An den Küsten des Lichts'' (''"On the Coasts of Light"'') (travel book), 1961 * ''Alexander oder die Verwandlung der Welt'' (''"Alexander, or The Transformation of the World"'') (biography), 1965 * ''Alexander der Große. Ein königliches Leben'' (''"Alexander the Great. A Royal Life"''), 1968 * ''Anarchie mit Liebe'' (''"Anarchy with Love"'') (collection of essays) * ''Eines Menschen Zeit'' (''"Time of a Human Being"'') (autobiography), 1972 * ''Am Rande der Schöpfung'' (''"On the Edge of Creation"'') (essays and articles), 1974

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