Maxime Hans Kuczyński
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Max Hans Kuczynski
Born(1890-02-02)2 February 1890
Berlin, Germany
Died26 November 1967(1967-11-26) (aged 77)
Lima, Peru
EducationUniversity of Rostock
OccupationPhysician
Children2, including Pedro
RelativesAlex Kuczynski (granddaughter)
Military career
AllegianceGermany
Service/branchGerman Army
Battles/warsBalkans Campaign

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

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ Walk, Joseph; Institute, Leo Baeck (21 November 2014). Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden: 1918–1945 (in German). p. 208. ISBN 9783111580876.
  3. ↑ University of Rostock register
  4. ↑ "Wybory w Peru: Kuczynski prowadzi, ale część kart trzeba sprawdzić". Wiadomosci.onet.pl. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  5. ↑ Max Hans Kuczynski: Untersuchungen an Trichomonaden. In: Archiv für Protistenkunde, Fischer, Jena, Bd. 33 (1914), S. 119–204.
  6. ↑ "Peru presidential contender is son of Polish Jews who fled Nazis". Timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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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