Alejandro Korn
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| Born | 3 May 1860 San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | October 9, 1936 (aged 76) La Plata, Argentina |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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Antipositivism University Reform |
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Main interests
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Axiology, Freedom, History of Argentine Philosophy |
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Notable ideas
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Creative Freedom, Latin American Philosophy, Value as the ideal answer to real disvalue |
Alejandro Korn (3 May 1860 – 9 October 1936) was an Argentine physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiaty hospital in Melchor Romero (a locality of La Plata in Buenos Aires), named as the city. He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student’s vote. He is considered to be the pioneer of Argentine philosophy. Along with Florentino Ameghino, Juan Vucetich, Almafuerte and Carlos Spegazzini, he is considered to be one of the five wise men of La Plata.
Alejandro Korn was born in San Vicente, Buenos Aires. His father, Carlos Adolfo Korn, was a liberal German-Prussian doctor and soldier, who had refused to take part in the repression that followed the worker’s strike in the textile sector during the Social Revolution in 1848. Sentenced to death, he fled to Switzerland on horseback. There, he studied Medicine and met his future wife, María Verena Meyer. He decided to migrate to Argentina, and there they got married. He settled down in San Vicente (Buenos Aires), where he worked as a doctor and a judge. He promoted the construction of the first flour mill and the lengthening of the railroad tracks to reach the city. He distinguished for his remarkable work fighting the cholera epidemics, and, for that reason, he was awarded by the president Domingo F. Sarmiento. When he died, in 1905, the city of San Vicente paid him homage.
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