Balbino Dávalos Balkim

Balbino Dávalos Balkim (born March 31, 1866 in Colima ; † October 2, 1951 ) was a Mexican lawyer, author, diplomat and rector of the Universidad Nacional de México .

biography

Dávalos studied at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia . He wrote some poetic works and was accepted at the Seminario Conciliar , where he learned Latin and Greek .

In 1888 he started working for a daily newspaper and joined the Liceo Mexicano de Cultura ( Mexican Cultural College ). From 1917 to 1919 he was a professor at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University and from May 11 to June 2, 1920 rector of the Universidad Nacional de México.

Diplomatic activity

From 1897 to 1905 he was employed in the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores and subsequently at the Mexican Embassy in London. Balbino Dávalos y Ponce was June 28, 1906 to March 3, 1907 Charge d'Affaires of the government of Porfirio Díaz in Washington .

From January 15, 1910 to January 9, 1912, he was Encargado de los Archivos de la Legación (Archives Commissioner of the Legation) in Lisbon . At the beginning of the First World War he was ambassador to Saint Petersburg . Venustiano Carranza dismissed all of Mexico's diplomats on the grounds that she had collaborated with the previous government . On March 26, 1920, Balbino Dávalos Chargé d'Affaires in Berne , the takeover of the business, in agreement with Venustiano Carranza on June 22, 1920, became ineffective .

predecessor	Office	successor
Joaquín Diego Casasús	Mexican Ambassador to the United States on June 28, 1906, relieved of business on March 3, 1907	Enrique Creel Cuilty
Miguel de Béistegui y Septién	Mexican envoy to Portugal January 15, 1910 to January 9, 1912	Leopoldo Blázquez Margáin
Miguel Covarrubias Acosta	Appointed Mexican Ambassador to Saint Petersburg on December 30, 1913, accredited from June 25 to August 31, 1914.	Miguel Covarrubias Acosta
Isidro Fabela	Appointed Mexican Embassy in Berlin on June 28, 1920, accredited from August 26, 1921 to June 16, 1922	Alfredo Caturegli

predecessor	Office	successor
Carlos Freymann	Appointed Mexican Ambassador to Stockholm on August 30, 1921, accredited from December 9, 1921 to June 16, 1922	Julio Madero González

Web links

• Works by and about Balbino Dávalos in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Embajadores de México