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

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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (; born 3 October 1938), also known simply as PPK (), is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the 59th President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as Prime Minister of ...

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

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origin. He studied

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and

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at the

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. In 1913 he received his degree in

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, and in 1919 a degree in

. During

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, he served in the

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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

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. 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 archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, wh ...

research in

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, and later, between 1938 and 1948, in the

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, and performed and published on self-experimentation in medicine 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, 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 ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

. His son,

, 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,

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, is a journalist and writer.

References

1890 births 1967 deaths Physicians from Berlin 20th-century Peruvian physicians Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the National University of San Marcos German Army personnel of World War I German people of Polish-Jewish descent Physicians 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