KARL SCHÖNHERR
KARL SCHÖNHERR

Summary/Abstract: Physicians have represented, throughout the centuries, not only practitioners of a profession that requires grace, dedication and knowledge of the secrets of the human body and mind, but they have tried to keep up with the social and economic transformations of their societies. Anchored in the harsh realities of their native realms, doctors were best able to know the human spirit. The studies they followed in a field so different from the literary one, chosen later, provided them with the necessary tools for the analysis of human consciousness. Karl Schönherr (1867-1943) is one of the examples of doctors who chose to practice literature. In the second part of his literary career, Schönherr focuses on exposing the powers of the guild from which he came. At the same time, the former doctor focuses much more than in the pre-war period on social issues and on the analysis of conscience. Our article aims at showing how despite medical studies, some doctors managed to bring literature to a higher level through their writings.

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