1. Childhood and youth in the Canary
Islands and GermanyNegrín, doctor of physiology
1. Childhood and youth in the Canary
Islands and Germany
Negrín, doctor of physiology
BIRTH AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IN
LAS PALMAS, GRAN CANARIA
UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN GERMANY:
KIEL AND LEIPZIG
DIRECTOR OF THE PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY
AT THE RESIDENCIA DE ESTUDIANTES,
IN MADRID
Whilst in Germany, he got married to a young Russian woman, Maria Fidelman, and returned to Spain a few months after the outbreak of World War I. In 1916, he was promoted in Spain by Santiago Ramón y Cajal to the directorship of a new Physiology Laboratory at the Residencia de Estudiantes, in Madrid. Some extremely important Spanish doctors were trained in Negrín’s laboratory, such as Severo Ochoa, Francisco Grande Covián and José Domingo Hernández Guerra. Throughout his life, he maintained a close friendship with his Catalan colleague and fellow physiologist, August Pi i Sunyer.
Photography: The Negrín family at the end of the 1920s.
Of the five children born to the marriage, their two
daughters died and their three sons survived.
From left to right, Rómulo, Juan and Miguel.
The Juan Negrín López Archive, Paris.