Alexandre Okinczyc

Alexandre Okinczyc
Born	28 January 1839 Sielec, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	18 March 1886 Villepreux, France
Medical career
Profession	"Médecin des pauvres"

Alexandre Okinczyc (Belarusian: Аляксандар Акінчыц, Aliaksandr Akinchyts, 1839–1886)^[1] was a Polish and French 19th century physician and memoirist of Belarusian ethnicity.

He sent to Siberia by Tsar Alexander II's troops after participating in the January Uprising in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. From there he succeeded to escape to the West. He established in France and became a known doctor.

There he wrote in Polish the story of his adventure, which was later translated to French by Joséphine Bohdan. The original Polish written version of the memoirs seems to be owned by Jean and Madeleine Okinczyc.^[2] The doctor died in Villepreux. There, the "Association des amis du vieux Villepreux" offers a museum about the "Docteur Alexandre" and there is a street named "rue du Docteur Alexandre".^[3]

References

1. Alexandre Okinczyc (1839–1886)
2. Memoires by Doctor Alexander Okinczyc translated by Krzysztof Mineyko
3. rue du Docteur Alexandre