German physician
Max "Maxime" Hans Kuczyński (2 February 1890 – 26 November 1967) was a German physician of Jewish origin.[ 1] He was the father of the former President of Peru , Pedro Pablo Kuczynski .
Biography
Maxime Kuczyński was born in Berlin ,[ 2] [ 3] as the son of Emma (née Schlesinger) and Louis Kuczyński, both of Jewish Polish origin.[ 4] He studied medicine and natural science at the University of Rostock . In 1913 he received his degree in philosophy , and in 1919 a degree in medicine .[ 5]
During World War I , he served in the German army and participated in the Balkans Campaign . In 1924, he was appointed as a professor. After the Nazis came to power he fled to Peru and joined the Institute of Social Medicine of the National University of San Marcos .[ 6] Between 1924 and 1926 he conducted anthropological research in Central Asia , and later, between 1938 and 1948, in the Andes , and performed and published on self-experimentation in medicine in 1937.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
Kuczyński died in Lima .
His son, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski , born in Lima in 1938, was Prime Minister of Peru between 2005 and 2006. A decade later, he became President after winning the second round in June 2016 . His American granddaughter, Alex Kuczynski , is a journalist and writer.
References
^ "Social medicine, medical geography and health care for indigenous peoples: "Ethnic Pathology" (Max Kuczynski, 1925) in Germany, Russia, Latin America and beyond" . Hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de . Retrieved 28 July 2012 .
^ Walk, Joseph; Institute, Leo Baeck (21 November 2014). Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden: 1918–1945 (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 208. ISBN 9783111580876 .
^ University of Rostock register
^ "Wybory w Peru: Kuczynski prowadzi, ale część kart trzeba sprawdzić" . Wiadomosci.onet.pl . 9 June 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2017 .
^ Max Hans Kuczynski: Untersuchungen an Trichomonaden . In: Archiv für Protistenkunde , Fischer, Jena, Bd. 33 (1914), S. 119–204.
^ "Peru presidential contender is son of Polish Jews who fled Nazis" . Timesofisrael.com . Retrieved 14 October 2017 .
^ Lawrence K. Altman: Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine . University of California Press, Berkeley 1987, ISBN 0-520-21281-9 , S. 4.
^ Albert Erhardt: Infektionen , Bd. I (= Ergänzungswerk zum Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie , begründet von Arthur Heffter , herausgegeben von Oskar Eichler , Bd. 16: Erzeugung von Krankheitszuständen durch das Experiment , Teil 9). Springer, Berlin 1964, S. 118.
^ Marcos Cueto: Un médico alemán en los Andes: La visión médico-social de Maxime Kuczynski-Godard . In: Allpanchis , Jg. 32 (2000), Themenheft 56: Sanos, enfermos y salvos? , S. 39–74.
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