Alejandro Korn, Buenos Aires
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Alejandro Korn is a city in the
Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
, Argentina, located in the
San Vicente Partido San Vicente Partido is a partido in the centre-east of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 45,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is San Vicente, which is around from Bueno ...
. The settlement was founded on August 14, 1865, and renamed in honour of
Alejandro Korn Alejandro Korn (3 May 1860 – 9 October 1936) was an Argentine psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiatry hospital in Melchor Romero (a locality of La Plata in Buenos Aires) ...
(1860 — 1935), an
Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
,
philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
, and
reformist Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can eve ...
.


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Ciudad de Alejandro Korn
San Vicente Partido Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1865 {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub