Miguel de Capriles

Miguel de Capriles medal table
fencing
United States
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	Los Angeles 1932	Epee team
bronze	London 1948	Saber crew
Pan American Games
gold	Buenos Aires 1951	Foil team
silver	Buenos Aires 1951	Epee team
gold	Buenos Aires 1951	Saber crew

Miguel Angel de Capriles (born November 30, 1906 in Mexico City , Mexico , † May 24, 1981 in San Francisco ) was an American fencer and professor of law .

Life

Miguel de Capriles, who emigrated to the United States in 1920, took part in three Olympic Games : at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles he took third place with the Degen team and received George Calnan , Frank Righeimer , Gustave Heiss , and Tracy Jaeckel and Curtis Shears the bronze medal. In 1936 he finished fifth with the saber team in Berlin . At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 he reached third place with the saber team and secured his second bronze medal alongside Tibor Nyilas , James Flynn , Norman Cohn-Armitage , Dean Cetrulo and George Worth . He won twelve national titles with the team and ten individual titles. At the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires in 1951 , he was a member of all three US teams and won gold medals with both the foil and saber teams. He won silver with the Degen team.

De Capriles practiced in the states of various official posts in the fencing before to 1964 as the first non-European, he the office of President of the 1961 World Fencing Association held. For his services to US and international fencing, he was awarded the Olympic Order in 1975 . In 1927 he graduated from New York University (NYU), where he was employed three years later. In 1932 he obtained his master’s degree from NYU , which was followed by a doctorate in law in 1935 . During the Second World War he worked as an assistant at the Ministry of Justice . He then became associate professor of law at NYU in 1947, later vice dean and finally dean of the NYU law faculty in 1964. In 1967 he was appointed vice president of the university and became its head of the legal department. In 1974 he moved to San Francisco , where he was a full professor of law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law .

De Capriles was married and had two children. His brother José de Capriles was also an Olympic fencer.

Web links

• Miguel de Capriles in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Josh Barbanel: Miguel de Caprilles, Ex-Dean of NYU Law School. In: nytimes.com. The New York Times , May 28, 1981; accessed February 15, 2019 .