Maxime Hans Kuczyński Explained
| Maxime Hans Kuczyński |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Berlin, Germany |
| Death Place: | Lima, Peru |
| Education: | University of Rostock |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Children: | 2, including Pedro |
| Relatives: | Alex Kuczynski (granddaughter) |
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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.
Notes and References
- Web site: 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. 28 July 2012.
- Book: Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden: 1918–1945. 208 . 9783111580876. German. Walk. Joseph. Institute. Leo Baeck. 21 November 2014. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
- http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/200008753 University of Rostock register
- Web site: Wybory w Peru: Kuczynski prowadzi, ale część kart trzeba sprawdzić. 9 June 2016. Wiadomosci.onet.pl. 14 October 2017.
- Max Hans Kuczynski: Untersuchungen an Trichomonaden. In: Archiv für Protistenkunde, Fischer, Jena, Bd. 33 (1914), S. 119–204.
- Web site: Peru presidential contender is son of Polish Jews who fled Nazis. Timesofisrael.com. 14 October 2017.
- Lawrence K. Altman: Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine. University of California Press, Berkeley 1987,, 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.
