Miguel Jiménez López

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Miguel Jiménez López (born July 24, 1875 in Paipa , Colombia, † August 22, 1955 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian medic , politician and racial theorist .

Life

Jiménez López earned his doctorate in 1899 at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a medical-psychological thesis on " incapacitation due to madness ". He was wounded in the Colombian Civil War of 1895; in the War of the Thousand Days he worked as a doctor for the government. From 1908 to 1912 he trained in Paris, particularly in the field of psychiatry .

From 1922 Jiménez López was government minister, then for many years a member of the Colombian Congress , President of the Directorio Nacional Conservador . From 1925 to 1928 he was envoy in Berlin and in 1951 Colombia's ambassador to the General Assembly of the United Nations .

In 1943 he became professor of psychiatry at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana ; from 1943 to 1947 he was director of the lunatic asylum Varones de Sibaté . As a forensic psychiatrist , he took part in the major investigations into the Conde de Cuchicute , the Zawadzki Trial and the Academia Nacional de Medicina debate on Simón Bolívar .

Fonts (selection)

  • Nuestras razas decaen: algunos signos de degeneración colectiva en Colombia y en los países similares; the actual de la ciencia. 1920. OCLC 42042755
  • La escuela y la vida. 1928. OCLC 55330518
  • La inmigración amarilla a la America. 1929. OCLC 41106143

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography on the website of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango .
personal data
SURNAME Jiménez López, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian medic, politician and racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Paipa , Colombia
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1955
Place of death Bogotá