Alejandro Korn, Buenos Aires - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Alejandro Korn is a city in the Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, located in the San Vicente Partido

San Vicente Partido

San Vicente Partido is a partido located in the centre-east of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of about 45,000 inhabitants in an area of 666 km², and its capital city is San Vicente, which is located around 52 km from Buenos...

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The settlement was founded on August 14, 1865 and renamed in honour of Argentine

Argentina

physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

, philosopher and reformist, Alejandro Korn

Alejandro Korn

Alejandro Korn was an Argentine physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiaty hospital in Melchor Romero , named as the city. He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student’s vote...

(1860-1935).

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