Johns Hopkins is a native of the United States of America. Known as a philanthropist and businessman. The hospital established under his will, better known as Johns Hopkins Hospital, at one time became the largest inheritance that went to charitable purposes. Among other things, he founded a university in B altimore.
Biography
The future entrepreneur was born in the winter of 1873. On December 24, Hannah Jennie Hopkins gave birth to her husband Samuel's second child, whom they decided to name John. Subsequently, 9 more children were born in a family that specialized in growing tobacco.
Hopkins spent his entire life in his hometown of B altimore, Maryland. Since the boy's parents belonged to the Protestant Christian Quaker movement and disbanded their slaves for free bread, he was forced to work in his family's factory. This made it very difficult to get an education. Johns Hopkins attended school for only three years.
At the age of 17, he left his parent's plantation and went into wholesale trade under his uncle Gerard. John lived with his uncle's family and hadthe imprudence of falling in love with his cousin, whose name was Elizabeth. The uncle, who belonged to the Quaker movement, did not approve of the marriage. Until his death, John loved Elizabeth and did not start a family. So does the cousin.
Doing business
The same year that John came to his uncle's job, he took over the store. The relatives did not have a permanent partnership, after 7 years Hopkins went to work for the Quaker Benjamin Moore. After a couple of years, they went their separate ways, as Moore was not enthusiastic about John's habit of accumulating capital.
When Johns Hopkins was 24, he took three brothers and started his own business. The family organized an enterprise that received the speaking name "Hopkins and Brothers". Such smart actions and further investments in the railroad allowed John to take the 69th line of the "Rich 100 from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates" list.
Johns Hopkins
On February 22, 1876, the inauguration of a private research institute took place. Mr. Hopkins, who by that time had earned a fairly large fortune, acted as its founder and main financial sponsor. This university has been ranked 17th in the ranking of the best universities in the world for several years in a row. 36 scientists who became Nobel Prize winners managed to work here at different times. For a long time there were no faculties at the university where women could study. The exception wasthat the Faculty of Medicine. The only educational institution that competes closely with Hopkins University is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
The hospital (better known as the hospital) was founded with money left by Hopkins after his death. It was assumed that here the treatment of patients would be combined with the education of medical students and research. The Johns Hopkins Hospital scientifically produced research that became the basis for the emergence of understanding about neurosurgery, child psychiatry and many other branches of medicine.
