Gerd Puritz (July 7, 1914 in

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– June 5, 2007) was the son and biographer of the

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Elisabeth Schumann Elisabeth Schumann (13 June 1888 – 23 April 1952) was a German soprano who sang in opera, operetta, oratorio, and lieder. She left a substantial legacy of recordings. Career Born in Merseburg, Schumann trained for a singing career in B ...

. He moved with his family to England in 1948 and worked for the German Service of the

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. After the death of his first wife, Biddy, he remarried in 1997 and moved to the

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with his Dutch wife in 2002 where he died. He is survived by his sons Christian and Rupert, his daughter Joy, and granddaughters Sophie and Alice.

External links

The Elisabeth Schumann website
1914 births 2007 deaths German biographers German male biographers 20th-century biographers 20th-century German male writers German emigrants to the United Kingdom British emigrants to the Netherlands {{Germany-writer-stub

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