Jean Victor Herran
Jean Victor Herran Houyou (born May 30, 1803 in Mourenx , † January 8, 1887 in Paris ) was a Honduran diplomat .
Life
Jean Victor Herran was the son of Madeleine Houyou (* 1765; † 1833) and Pierre Herran (* 1755; † 1832), a wealthy mayor. He studied chemistry and botany in Oloron-Sainte-Marie and in Bordeaux . In Paris he studied mineralogy, zoology and medicine .
From 1822 he practiced as a doctor in Cartagena (Colombia) . From 1830 he was medical officer in Santiago de Veraguas , which at that time still belonged to Colombia , and married Joséfa Ramona López de Aroséména (* 1813 in Santiago de Veraguas). From July 9 to August 28, 1831, an Estado Libre del Istmo ( Panama ) separated from Greater Colombia under Colonel Juan Eligio Alzuru (* 1791 Venezuela; † August 28, 1831). Herrán heads medical care in the separatist army. The attempt at separation was thwarted with an army of 700 men under Colonel Tomás Herrera.
Herrán migrated to Costa Rica in 1832 and looked there for healing methods for leishmaniasis . In 1836 he migrated to the San Miguel Department (El Salvador) , which was ravaged by cholera .
In 1840 José Francisco Morazán Quezada's army was defeated in Guatemala and Morazán was captured. Morazán was able to escape with his retinue to the La Libertad department and fled to the La Unión department , where Herran acquired two boats in which Morázan and his retinue fled to the Isla del Tigre in the Gulf of Fonseca. Herrán was sentenced to shoot for helping to escape, but was able to justify his actions to the Commander-in-Chief and was arrested, from which he escaped in a prisoner revolt.
In 1841 he founded a shipping company in Bordeaux , which successfully sailed the sea route to Central America. From 1950 he headed the consular department in Costa Rica, until 1854 the legislative assembly of Costa Rica passed a law that reserved the foreign policy representation of Costa Rican citizens. In 1854 he represented the diplomatic interests of El Salvador .
In 1855 he was sent by José Santos Guardiola as Ministre plénipotentiaire to Paris to work with the government of Napoleon III. to negotiate a trade deal. He was then sent to London with León Alvarado and Carlos Gutiérrez to negotiate the financing of the construction of an interoceanic railway.
Under the government of Marco Aurelio Soto , he was relieved of his duties with his son-in-law Eugène Pelletier, the Honduran Consul General in Paris, at the instigation of the Honduras Interoceanic Railway Company, Limited, on charges of mismanagement.
In 1872 he acquired the Château Beaumont from Count von Gennes, great-uncle of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Publications
- Le Chemin de Fer Inter-océanique du Honduras. Étude sur l'avenir commercial et indurstiel de l'amérique centrale.
- Honduras Railroad Connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean: Studies of the Commercial and Industrial Future of Central America, 1869.
Individual evidence
- ↑ fiche
- ↑ The Illustrated London News , August 30, 1856, Senor Jean Victor Herran - Honduras Plenipotentary.
- ↑ Historical account of the mischances in regard to the construction of a railway across the Republic of Honduras, p. 54.
- ↑ chateau-beaumont, com
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Honduran ambassador in Paris 1856 to 27 Aug 1857 |
Carlos Gutiérrez | |
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honduran Ambassador to the Court of St James’s Aug. 27, 1857 to 1873 |
Carlos Gutiérrez |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Herran, Jean Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrán Hanyoa, Juan Víctor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Honduran diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mourenx |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1887 |
| Place of death | Paris |