Max "Maxime" Hans Kuczyński (2 February 1890 – 26 November 1967) was a German physician of

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origin. He was the father of the former President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

Biography

Maxime Kuczyński was born in

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, as the son of Emma (''

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'' Schlesinger) and Louis Kuczyński, both of Polish and Jewish origin. He studied

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

and

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at the

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. In 1913 he received his degree in

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, and in 1919 a degree in

. During

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, he served in the

German army The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...

and participated in the Balkans Campaign. In 1924, he received his professorship. After the Nazis came to power he fled to Peru. Between 1924 and 1926 he conducted

anthropological Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

research in

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, and later, between 1938 and 1948, in the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

, and performed and published on

self-experimentation in medicine Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment are all the same. Sel ...

in 1937.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 Oskar may refer to: * oskar (gene), the Drosophila gene * Oskar (given name) Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name of Irish origin. Etymology The name is derived from two elements in Irish: the first, ''os'', means "deer"; the second element, ' ...

, 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. Kuczyński died in

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...

. His son, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, born in Lima in 1938, was

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between 2005 and 2006. A decade later, he became

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after winning the second round in June 2016. His American granddaughter,

Alex Kuczynski Alexandra Louise Kuczynski (born December 6, 1970) is a Peruvian reporter who has written for the ''The New York Times, New York Times'' and the ''The New York Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine'', and is the author of the award-winning 20 ...

, is a journalist and writer.

References

1890 births 1967 deaths Physicians from Berlin 20th-century Peruvian physicians Humboldt University of Berlin faculty National University of San Marcos faculty German Army personnel of World War I German people of Polish-Jewish descent People from the Province of Brandenburg Peruvian people of Polish-Jewish descent German emigrants to Peru Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany University of Rostock alumni Kuczynski family {{Peru-med-bio-stub