José Pedro Barrán

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José Pedro Barrán

José Pedro Barrán (born February 26, 1934 in Fray Bentos , Uruguay , † September 11, 2009 ) was a Uruguayan historian .

The graduate of the Instituto Profesores de Artigas (IPA) received a Guggenheim grant in 1979/1980 and a Fulbright research grant at the National Archives of Washington in 1993 . The history lecturer, who initially worked as a secondary school teacher and from 1960 to 1964 at the Archivo General de la Nación , was married to Alicia Casas. In 1978 he had to give up teaching during the civil-military dictatorship in his home country. In the same year he worked for the Centro de investigaciones Económicas (Cinve). He also wrote as a history critic for Brecha and Cuadernos de Marcha . After democracy took hold again in Uruguay, Barrán was director of the Department of Uruguayan History at the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FHCE) of the Universidad de la República from 1985 .

He published numerous articles in joint works and foreign magazines. Many of his works, published as books, were created in collaboration with Benjamin Nahum , including one of his central works with Batlle, los estancieros y el Imperio Británico , for which he was awarded the Premio Clarence Haring in 1986 . In later years Barrán also published increasingly as a single author. From 2005 until his health-related resignation in October 2006, he was Vice-President of the Consejo de Educación ( CODICEN ).

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literature

  • Miguel Ángel Campodónico : Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya. Sepa quién es quién en Artes Visual es, Música, Cine y Video, Teatro, Letras y Periodismo. Linardi y Risso, Montevideo 2003, ISBN 9974-559-31-6 , p. 39f.

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personal data
SURNAME Barrán, José Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Fray Bentos , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2009