Pedro Olympio

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Siru Pedro Olympio (born April 21, 1898 Lomé ; † 1969 ) was a Togolese diplomat and doctor.

Life

Olympio was the son of Octaviano Olympio, of Brazilian origin . He went to school first in Lomé, then in the mission school in Steyl (Netherlands), in St. Wendel (Saarland) and finally in Euskirchen . He passed the Abitur there in 1920. He studied medicine in Bonn and Munich and received his doctorate in 1926 on the subject of the simultaneous occurrence of spondylitis deformans and carcinoma ventriculi on x-rays . He then worked at the Hamburg Tropical Institute and studied three semesters in Paris .

He then returned to Togo, where he opened his own clinic in Lome. In West Africa he was the first local doctor with European training.

In 1936 he became a member of the Commission municipale de Lomé. Between 1938 and 1940 he headed the “Comité du Guide du Togo” with his cousin Sylvanus Olympia. In 1946, Olympio co-founded the Progress Party with Nicolas Grunitzky . As a member of the Togolese delegation to the OECD , he took part in international conferences from 1948 onwards.

In 1955 the Togolese People's Party (MPT) split off under his leadership , and he became its president.

literature

  • Siru Pedro Olympio: About the simultaneous occurrence of spondylitis deformans and carcinoma ventriculi in the X-ray. Kaldenkirchen, Rhineland, 1926 / Munich, Med.Diss., 1926
  • Monika Firla: Siru Pedro Olympio, Matthias Yawo Anthony and Martin Aku. Three Togolese doctors in Germany 1914-38 and their further life . Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Africa section in Stuttgart, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Cornevin: Olympia Pedro (1898–1969) in: Académie des sciences d'outre-mer: Hommes et destins. Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, 1975, p. 565.
  2. ↑ a b http://etudesafricaines.revues.org/88
  3. ↑ a b c d e Pedro Olympio , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/1969 of February 17, 1969, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  4. ^ Nazi Documentation Center (Historical Archive of the City of Cologne): Between Charleston and Goose Step: Blacks in National Socialism. Dölling and Galitz, 2004, ISBN 3-935549-84-9 , page 41.
  5. ^ Robert Cornevin: Le Togo: des origines à nos jours in Cahiers libres, edition 2148 of Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens. Académie des Sciences d'outre-mer, 1987, ISBN 2-900098-00-9 , page 252.
personal data
SURNAME Olympio, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olympio, Siru Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Togolese diplomat and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomé
DATE OF DEATH 1969