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Gustav Davidson was born on December 25, 1895 in Warsaw, Poland.
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He was one time secretary of the Society of America. In the wake of anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland, his family fled to the United States, settling in New York City in 1907. Davidson received bachelor"s and master"s degrees at Columbia University in 1919 and 1920 respectively.
He worked for the Library of Congress between 1938 and 1939 and became executive secretary of the Society of America from 1949 to 1965 (after which he was elected executive secretary emeritus).
He is today best remembered as the author of, Including the Fallen Angels, (1967) a populist work detailing the types of angel classes and their roles. He also wrote articles, such as on encounters with angels, in the parapsychological Tomorrow magazine of medium Eileen J. Garrett.
Davidson edited A Half Century of Sonnets (1924), and the 1950 collection In Fealty to Apollo for the Society of America, an organization for which he served as Secretary. (The Society established a Gustav Davidson Memorial Award in his honor) He also edited periodicals devoted to poetry: The Chapbook and Poet Lore: A Quarterly of World Literature.
