Miguel Jiménez López
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
literature
- Manuel Torres Gutiérrez: Un psiquiatra decimonónico en el siglo xx: Miguel Jimenez López (1875–1955). In: Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría , Volume XXX, No. 2, 2001, pp. 113-140. ISSN 0034-7450
Web links
- Literature by and about Miguel Jiménez López in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Short biography on the website of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango .
personal data | |
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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 |