Luis Herman Irigoyen

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Luis Herman Irigoyen or Luis Hernán Irigoyen (born March 7, 1897 in Buenos Aires , † July 16, 1977 ) was an Argentine diplomat and botanist .

Career

Luis Herman Irigoyen studied biology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires . At the Department of Botany, he conducted research in the areas of botanical taxonomy , plant physiology , phytopathology and microbiology .

Irigoyen began his diplomatic career as an attaché at the Argentine embassy in Bern .

Luis Irigoyen was accredited at the Argentine Embassy in Berlin from 1932 to 1944. In 1950 Irigoyen became ambassador in Bonn . He remained that way until 1957. From 1964 to 1968 he was the Argentine ambassador to Bonn for a second time.

family

His parents were Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933), two-time Argentine President, and the Italian or Austro-Hungarian Luisa or Aloysia Stéphana Bacichi Bonazza (1855-1924). Her first marriage was to the Argentine politician and writer Eugenio Cambaceres until his death in 1888 . His mother tongue was German.

Irigoyen married María Martha Kurth; their son is Raúl Irigoyen Kurth.

Publications

  • Luis Herman Irigoyen, Lucien Hauman : Catalog des phanerogames de l'Argentina , 1923

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predecessor Office successor
Argentine ambassador to Montevideo
1948 to 1951
Luis Santiago Luti Argentine ambassador in Bonn from
1950 to 1957
Raúl de Labougle Carranza
Gualterio Enrique Ahrens Argentine ambassador in Bonn from
1964 to 1968
Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú y Cantilo