Max Jacques Roeper studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 17 March 1926. He specialized to become a surgeon. For many years, he worked as an assistant at the surgeon's clinic of the General Provincial, Municipal and University Hospital of Groningen, where he lived at 110 Heereweg. In 1935, he left for Heerenveen, where he ran an extensive practice in gynaecological s…