Jesús Aguilar Paz (15 October 1895 in
Gualala,
Santa Bárbara Department – 26 June 1974 in
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa (, , ), formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( es, Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz'', is the capital and largest city ...
) was a Honduran chemist, pharmacist, cartographer, folklorist and teacher.
In 1915, he was appointed Secretary of the Escuela Normal de Occidente in the city of
La Esperanza,
Intibucá, where he was later appointed deputy director. Between 1915 and 1933 he made extensive trips around the country, taking sketches and making notes, which would become the subject of several books. In 1931 he published ''Tradiciones y leyendas de Honduras'' (''Traditions and legends of Honduras'') and in 1933 he published the official general map of the municipalities of Honduras, ''Mapa General de la República de Honduras''.
He was a member and editor of the ''
Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Honduras'' journal. From 1950 to 1953 he was Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the
National University of Honduras. In 1947, he published a book on chemistry, ''Interpretación química y Ley Periódica Universal''.
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1895 births
1974 deaths
Honduran chemists
Honduran pharmacists
20th-century cartographers
Honduran folklore
Folklorists
People from Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras
Academic staff of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
20th-century chemists
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