Maxime Hans Kuczynski

Max Kuczynski ( born February 2, 1890 in Berlin, † 1967 in Lima ) was a German bacteriologist and pathologist. As a high school teacher in Berlin, he turned to anthropology. As an emigrant in Peru, he was the pioneer of " ethnic pathology ".

Life

Kuczynski was born into a Jewish family in the province of Posen. His parents were Louis and Emma Kuczynski Kuczynski. He studied natural sciences and medicine at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and the University of Rostock (1912 /13). In 1912 he married Lotte Henriette service finished. In Rostock, he received his doctorate in 1913 Dr. phil .. In the army of the German Empire, he took part in the fighting in the Balkans.

After he had completed his studies as a student of Otto Lubarsch 1919 at the Charité also an MD, he completed his habilitation in 1921. Again, after only two years as a lecturer in 1923, he ao Professor. In the same year he entered a one-year Visiting Professor of General Pathology in Omsk. In 1924 he accepted an invitation to continue its work for disease research in Moscow. In the same year he was Lubarsch Department Chair at the Berlin pathology. Accompanied by a Latvian and a Kyrgyz student he traveled to Central Asia to the Altai, Lake Balkhash and Irtysh. The relationship between life-world and human diseases began to fascinate him. In 1932 he moved to the termination at the Pathological Institute at the newly built Neurological Institute.

During the period of National Socialism, he was transferred to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in November 1933 with 43 ​​years in retirement. He left How many other stakeholders Germany. The years 1933-1936 are unclear. Kuczynski but left Germany in 1933 and came across France, Switzerland and Caracas to Peru. In 1935 he married his second wife Madeleine Godard, an aunt of Jean -Luc Godard. He called himself Maxime Kuczynski Godard and lived under this name in Peru. He worked there from 1938 at the Institute of Social Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. In the same year he survived a self-experiment with Bartonella bacilliformis. This self-experiment was 1885 considered fatal for the Peruvian national hero Daniel Alcides Carrión. Later Kuczynski worked until 1948 for the Ministry of Health in the Amazon and in part for the Ministry of Economy in the Andes. His anthropological research among the indigenous peoples of South America have led the way.

His son, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, born in 1938 was 2005/06, Prime Minister of Peru.

Works

• Martin Levinthal and Erich Wolf: epidemiology, etiology, pathological anatomy and pathogenesis of influenza ( Spanish flu = 1918). J. F. Bergmann, 1921. Google Books
• Steppe and man. Kyrgyz travel impressions and reflections on life, culture and disease in their contexts. Leipzig 1925
• Medical impressions and observations following a second medical study trip in Central Asia. In: Klinische Wochenschrift, 5 ( 9 ), pp. 370-373; 5 (10 ), pp. 422-425 (1926)
• The excitation of the stain and rock fever. Berlin 1927
• Bianca High nobility: The germ of yellow fever. Nature and effect. Berlin 1929