Life
The son of German immigrants, Zinsser was born in New York City in 1878. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1899 and completed both a masters degree and a doctorate in medicine there in 1903.
In 1905, Dr. Hans Zinsser married Ruby Handforth Kunz, eldest daughter of the mineralogist, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, and they had two children, Hans Handforth and Gretel Zinsser, and they all lived in Boston. Gretel Zinsser later married Vernon Monroe, Jr.
Zinsser succumbed to acute leukemia in 1940. He is interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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