Janusz Korczak

✶July 21, 1878

†August 5, 1942

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Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. He was an early children's rights advocate, drafting a children's constitution in 1919.

Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)

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