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Ludwik Rajchman
Polish microbiologist, co-founder of UNICEF (1881–1965)
Ludwik W. Rajchman | |
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Rajchman in the 1920s | |
| Born | (1881-11-01)1 November 1881 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 13 July 1965(1965-07-13) (aged 83) Chenu, Sarthe, France |
| Known for | Founding UNICEF |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bacteriology |
Ludwik Witold Rajchman (Polish pronunciation:[ˈlud.vikˈfi.tɔldˈraj.xman]; 1 November 1881 – 13 July 1965) was a Polish physician and bacteriologist. He is regarded as the founder of UNICEF,[1] and served as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950.
Early life and education
Ludwik Witold Rajchman was born to Aleksander Rajchman, the founder and first director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, and Melania Hirszfeld, a socialist and women's rights activist. He was from a family of Christianized Polish Jews. While his parents were agnostic, Ludwik was baptized at birth.[2] He is the brother of Aleksander Rajchman, a prominent Polish mathematician and of Helena Radlińska [pl], a Polish sociologist and h
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Marta Aleksandra Balińska, Ludwik Rajchman. Życie w służbie ludzkości, translated by Maria Braunstein and Michał Krasicki, Wydawnictwo Studio Emka, Warsaw 2012
The Cosmopolitan of Senatorska Street. On the biography of Ludwik Rajchman
As I set about writing this review of the newly published biography of Ludwik Rajchman (a translation of a French original) one of the Polish television channels was airing a Polish-French serial titled Marie Curie. ‘We know so much about Marie Sklodowska-Curie’, I thought to myself, ‘and so very little about Rajchman, her 14 years younger successor among the international elite, an accomplished bacteriologist and the founder of UNICEF’.
It is, incidentally, not only this Polish scientist that is obscured by a lack of historical knowledge. How easily have we forgotten that it was exactly the most tragic period in the history of the Congress Kingdom, the half-century between the January Uprising and World War I, that produced a great number of extraordinary people—enqui
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A 1933 Letter from the League of Nations: Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Director
In a half-filled folio sized scrap book of Selwyn Oxley’s, various letters and odd documents were gathered by him or his wife Kate, from when he first became involved as a ‘missioner to the deaf’ in 1914, through to the 1930s. Together with a small number of short letters from Dr. Eicholz (who we hope to cover in a future item), there is this letter which appears below. The League of Nations was conducting an enquiry into Deafness, and Selwyn Oxley obviously wrote to say that he was willing to be of assistance, presumably with information and contacts. The content of the letter is not particularly interesting, but the author is.
Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965) was from another of those remarkable families who produced a number of brilliant people, doctors, engineers and mathematicians. He was born in Poland, son of the musician Aleksander Rajchman, and became a bacteriologist. When aged only fourteen he was in trouble for distributing ‘subversive’ literature – educ
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