Salvador Massip Valdés

Salvador Massip Valdés (* 19th April 1891 in the settlement of Puerta de Güira at the entrance of Artemisa , Pinar del Río province , † 1978 ) was a Cuban and a geographer and ambassadors .

Life

Salvador Massip Valdés attended high school in Pinar del Río and graduated from the Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza de Santa Clara in 1909 . He received his doctorate in education in 1912 and a doctorate in fine arts at the University of Havana in 1915 . In 1922 he received a Masters in Geography from Columbia University , New York City . From 1912 to 1916 he was an assistant at the chair of anthropology in Havana. In 1916 he received the professorship for geography and history at the Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza in Matanzas . From 1920 to 1930 he held a teaching post at the Escuela de Cadetes de la Marina de Guerra Nacional in Havana. Methods of geographic teaching introduced by Massip in Cuba included field trips and field studies.

Salvador Massip Valdés was a member of the Communist Party of Cuba . In 1930 he was removed from the faculty as his opposition to the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado became apparent. In 1934 he was allowed to teach at the military academy again. After participating in the general strike in March 1935, he had to go into exile in Mexico. He was opponent of the coup of March 10, 1952 with which Fulgencio Batista brought himself to power and supported the Cuban Revolution . In 1959 he was one of the founders of the Academia de Ciencias de Cuba . From 1961 to 1965 he was ambassador to Warsaw .

Salvador Massip Valdés was married to Sarah E. Ysalgué, who was also a geographer.

Individual evidence

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predecessor	Office	successor
Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal	Cuban ambassador in Warsaw from 1961 to 1965	Jorge Bolaños