Pedro Pablo Kuczynski - Family and Personal Life

Family and Personal Life

His father, Dr. Maxime Hans Kuczynski, born in Berlin, Germany was a renowned pathologist and tropical disease specialist, in particular expert on verruga peruana or Carrion's disease. He trained at the Universities of Rostock and Berlin, where he was professor of pathology. An officer in the German army on the Eastern and Turkish fronts in the First World War, he travelled widely in Russia, China, West Africa, and Brazil. Leaving Germany in 1933, he was invited to Peru in 1936 by president Óscar R. Benavides to set up the public health service in the interior of the country. Dr. Kuczynski reformed the San Pablo leprosarium on the Amazon at the Brazilian frontier, set up a public health colony on the Perene river, and was later professor of tropical medicine at San Marcos University in Lima.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard has been married twice: first with Jane Dudley Casey (daughter of Joseph E. Casey, member of congress for the 3rd district of Massachusetts), their offspring being Carolina Madeleine Kuczynski, the journalist Alex Kuczynski, and the philosopher John-Michael Kuczynski. His current wife is Nancy Lange with whom he has had a daughter. Kuczynski's younger brother Miguel Jorge is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; and their first cousin is Jean-Luc Godard, the renowned French-Swiss film director.

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