Morrie Schwartz

Morris S. Schwartz (born December 20, 1916 in New York City , † November 4, 1995 in Newton, Massachusetts ) was an American sociologist . He gained notoriety posthumously for his role in Tuesdays at Morrie's (1998).

Schwartz grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree after graduating from City College in New York. He completed his master's degree in 1946 and his Ph.D. 1951 at the University of Chicago . He wrote three books on mental disorders in the 1950s and 1960s. He also taught at the Sociology Faculty of Brandeis University . Among his students was the future sports journalist Mitch Albom . Schwartz taught beyond his 70th birthday until his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis made it impossible for him.

After seeing Schwartz on the television show Nightline , where he covered his illness, Mitch Albom went to see his former mentor. Together they wrote the book Tuesdays at Morrie during the last days of Schwartz in 1995 . It was released in the US in 1997 and has been on the USA Today bestseller list for more than six years . In the 1999 television adaptation , Morrie Schwartz was played by Jack Lemmon .

Fonts

• with Emmy Lanning Shockley, Charlotte Green Schwartz: The Nurse and the Mental Patient. A Study in Interpersonal Relations. Wiley 1956, ISBN 978-0-4717-6610-0 .
• with Alfred H. Stanton: The Mental Hospital. A Study of Institutional Participation in Psychiatric Illness and Treatment. Basic Books, New York 1958, ISBN 978-1-59147-617-7 .
• Charlotte Green Schwartz: Social Approaches to Mental Patient Care. Columbia University Press, New York / London 1964, OCLC 797866922 .
• Letting go. Morrie's Reflections on Living While Dying. Walker & Company, New York 1996, ISBN 978-0-8027-1315-5 .

  German edition: Wisdom of Life. Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-45857-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Morrie Schwartz in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Tuesdays With Morrie": Winfrey produces TV film on CNN , February 12, 1999