Ernst Weiss

Ernst Weiss (28 August 1882 to 15 June 1940) was an Austrian physician and author of Jewish descent, born in Brno, then called Brünn, in Moravia. He studied medicine in Prague and Vienna, finished his studies in 1908 and worked as a surgeon, later serving as a military physician in the First World War, before giving up medicine in 1920 to write. He published nearly a novel a year in Berlin, left for Paris in 1934 and wrote The Eyewitness (Der Augenzeuge), a novel of the Hitler period. He won a silver medal in the art competitions of the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and died in Paris in 1940.