Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik
- Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik
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▪ Swedish author and physician
born Oct. 31, 1857, Oskarshamn, Sweden
died Feb. 11, 1949, Stockholm
Swedish physician, psychiatrist, and writer whose book The Story of San Michele (1929), an account of his experiences as a doctor in Paris and Rome and in semiretirement at the villa of San Michele on Capri, achieved immense popularity in its original English version and in many translations. Its lasting success may be attributed to its intimate revelation of an unusually vital personality and its sympathetic description of suffering.
Munthe studied at Uppsala, Montpellier, and Paris, where he worked under Jean-Martin Charcot, the pioneer neurologist. After practicing in Paris and Italy (where he was awarded a gold medal for his work during the Messina earthquake), he became in 1908 physician-in-ordinary to the Swedish royal family. His other books of reminiscences, Memories and Vagaries (1898) and Letters From a Mourning City (1887), never achieved the success of San Michele.
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