Jorge Basadre Grohmann
Jorge Basadre Grohmann (born February 12, 1903 in Tacna , Chile , † June 29, 1980 in Lima, Peru) was a Peruvian historian .
Basadre became known for his extensive publications on the independence of Peru. Basadre was twice Peruvian Minister of Education and was director of the Peruvian National Library (Biblioteca Nacional del Perú).
Jorge Basadre was born in Tacna in 1903 as the seventh and last child of the married couple Carlos Basadre Forero and Olga Grohmann Butler y Pividal. He began his education in 1908 at the Lyceum Saint Rose in Tacna. In 1912 the family moved to Lima. Basadre attended the German School there and in 1918 the Colegio Nacional Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.
Honors
- 1958: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1965: Palmas Magisteriales (with the title of an Amauta )
- 1975: Premio Nacional de Cultura of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture
- 1977: Premio Rafael Heliodoro Valle of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Fonts (excerpt)
- La multitud, la ciudad y el campo en la historia del Perú (1929)
- La iniciación de la República (2 volumes, 1929–1930)
- Perú: problema y posibilidad (1931)
- Meditaciones sobre el destino histórico del Perú (1947)
- Los fundamentos de la historia del Derecho (1956)
- Introducción a las bases documentales para la historia de la República del Perú (2 volumes, 1971)
- El azar en la historia y sus límites (1973). The appendix to this book, in particular, met with a strong response in Peru: La serie de probabilidades dentro de la emancipación peruana .
- La vida y la historia (1975, 2nd, expanded edition 1981, a review of people he met, places that shaped him, topics that preoccupied him and memories of his childhood and youth in Tacna)
- Apertura (1978, selected essays on historical, political and cultural-historical topics, edited by Patricio Ricketts)
- Elecciones y centralismo en el Perú. Apuntes para un esquema histórico (1980).
- Sultanismo, corrupción y dependencia en el Perú republicano (1981, published posthumously)
literature
- Héctor López Martínez: Jorge Basadre. Su legado histórico y ético . Editora El Comercio, Lima 2005. ISBN 9972-205-79-7 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basadre Grohmann, Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tacna , Peru |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1980 |
| Place of death | Lima, Peru |