Palma Guillén y Sánchez

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Palma Guillén y Sánchez (born March 1898 in Mexico City , † April 28, 1975 ) was the first Mexican ambassador .

Life

Palma Guillén y Sánchez studied at the Escuela Normal de Maestros and received a doctorate in filosofía y letras . Palma Guillén y Sánchez was by on February 1, 1935 Lazaro Cardenas to Enviado Extraordinario y Ministro Plenipotenciario appointed.

She taught as a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . From 1939 to 1941 the teaching staff at UNAM had 24 professorships, of which those of Ana Maas de Serrano and Palma Guillén y Sánchez were held by women.

For the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores , Palma Guillén y Sánchez was Asesor Técnico with the League of Nations from 1938 to 1942 . In 1952 she was cultural attaché in Rome . In the Secretaría de Educación Pública , she headed the Departamento de Enseñanza Secundaria (Department of High School Education). She was engaged in inspecting primary schools and was sent to international education conferences.

Palma Guillén y Sánchez and Gabriela Mistral became friends when they both worked for José Vasconcelos in Mexico from 1922 to 1924 . The two traveled in Europe from 1926 to 1940 and raised Gabriela Mistral's nephew Juan Miguel Godoy aka Yin Yin, whom Gabriela Mistral had adopted from her half-brother in 1926 when she lived in Marseille after the death of his mother. Gabriela Mistral was in the foreign service of Chile in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Guatemala from 1927 to 1935. When Gabriela Mistral was on a lecture tour from 1930 to 1931 and from 1937 to 1938, Juan Miguel Godoy stayed with Palma Guillén. When Juan Miguel Godoy committed suicide in 1943, Palma Guillén traveled to Gabriela Mistral in Petropolis and stood by her. Palma Guillén became Gabriela Mistral's secretary and married Luis Nicolau d'Olwer in 1946 .

Publications

  • La mujer en la historia de México, Palma Guillen de Nicolau D'Olwer,
  • Tala, Gabriela Mistral, Palma Guillén de Nicolau d'Olwer, Porrúa, 251 p., 1979
  • Lecturas para mujeres. Gabriela Mistral (1922–1924), edited by Palma Guillén de Nicolau
predecessor Office successor
Óscar E. Duplán Mexican Ambassador to Bogotá
April 26, 1935–1. September 1936 		José Domingo Ramírez Garrido
Gonzalo N. Santos Mexican Ambassador to Stockholm
October 17, 1936–6. December 1937 		Carlos Esteban Peon del Valle y Varona

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ana Maas de Serrano: Adalberto García de Mendoza, Anales del Conservatorio nacional de música , DF, Ediciones "Amigos del Conservatorio," 1941
  2. ↑ También cabe mencionar que entre los 24 profesores distinguidos había dos mujeres - Palma Guillén y Sánchez, y Ana Maas de Serrano according to: Roderic Ai Camp, Líderes políticos de México, su educación y reclutamiento, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1983, p. , P. 224.
  3. ↑ LA DOCTORA PALMA GUILLÉN SÁNCHEZ FUE LA PRIMERA MUJER MEXICANA EN ALCANZAR EL MÁS ALTO RANGO EN EL SERVICIO EXTERIOR? ( Memento from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo, Elizabeth Horan, Doris Meyer, This America of ours: the letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo p. 32 FN.8
  5. ↑ http://www.ciecas.ipn.mx/03wspub/01pubrevi/20_msXXI/Mujer_historia_Dia_Internacional_Mujer_CIECAS-IPN-Mexico.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ciecas.ipn.mx  
  6. ↑ Embajadores de México
personal data
SURNAME Guillén y Sánchez, Palma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillén de Nicolau D'Olwer, Palma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH March 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1975