Fortunato Pereira Gamba

Fortunato Pereira Gamba (* 1866 in Bogotá ; † 1936 ) was a Colombian engineer and professor.

Pereira Gamba grew up in a wealthy family and studied mining engineering ( ingeniero civil de minas ). In 1902 he founded Boletín Industrial , organ of his trading and importing company Pereira Gamba y Cia . Together with José Rafael Sañudo and Benjamín Belalcázar , he founded the Universidad de Nariño in 1904 and was appointed Rector of the Facultad de Matemáticas e Ingeniería of the Universidad de Nariño.

Pereira Gamba was convinced that Colombia's progress depends on technology; he published several books about it.

literature

• Gerardo León Guerrero Vinueza: Fortunato Pereira Gamba: su vida y su trabajo por la Universidad de Nariño. In: Personajes Importantes en la historia de la Universidad de Nariño. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Biografías series, volume 1. San Juan de Pasto: Editoriel Universitaria Universidad de Nariño, 2006, pp. 45–66. ISBN 958-9479-71-5

Web links

• Literature from and about Fortunato Pereira Gamba in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Maria Teresa Alvarez Hoyos: Universidad y elite intelectual en el sur de Colombia. Pasto, 1904-1930. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 176 kB) 2005. 
2. ↑ Alberto Mayor Mora, Silvia Inés Jiménez Gómez, Hugo Cardona Bueno: Inventos y patentes en Colombia, 1930-2000: de los límites de las herramientas a las fronteras del conocimiento. ITM, 2005, p. 41. ISBN 9789589751091
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.