Pierre-Andre-Eugene Winter was born on 29 June 1891 in Asnieres, Hauts-de-Seine.
16 Facts About Pierre Winter
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Pierre Winter's father was Charles-Pierre Winter, a publicist and old collaborator of Georges Clemenceau, and his mother was Marie-Armande Duclois.
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Pierre Winter attended the lycee Charlemagne, and then was admitted to the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
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Pierre Winter was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour.
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In 1919 Winter became an intern in the Paris hospitals, and the next year became assistant to Dr Clovis Vincent at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital.
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Pierre Winter was a founder of the center of medical diagnosis.
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Pierre Winter was a member of the editorial board of the avant-guarde urban planning journal Plans.
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Pierre Winter became a member of the international congress of modern architecture and president of the hygiene section of the assembly of constructors for an architectural renewal.
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Pierre Winter died at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, on 29 June 1952.
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Pierre Winter was against existing urban conditions, as was Le Corbusier.
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Pierre Winter argued for healthy modern homes with open space and greenery for workers and their families.
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Pierre Winter's new architecture, with its pure lines, planes and volumes was a precursor of the fascist revolution.
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Pierre Winter became interested in homeopathy, and in particular in acupuncture and Chinese medicine as practiced in France.
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Pierre Winter contributed the chapter on the Middle Ages to Laignel-Lavastines Histoire generale de la medecine.
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Pierre Winter was one of the closest in the French medical community to the philosopher Rene Guenon, and in 1938 created the Groupe d'etudes metaphysiques, inspired by Guenon.
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Pierre Winter carried on correspondence with the Swami Siddheshwarananda and the Orthodox father Kovalevsky.