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Adolfo Carranza (August 7, 1857 – August 15, 1914) was an Argentine lawyer, public official, historian, and writer who established the National Historical Museum.


Life and times

Adolfo Pedro Carranza was born in
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to María Eugenia del Mármol and Adolfo Carranza. He enrolled at the
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Law School, earning a ''
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'', and in 1880 married Carmen García Lara, with whom he had one daughter.Genealogía Argentina: Adolfo Pedro Carranza Mármol
/ref> Carranza entered public service, and was appointed Economic Affairs
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to the Argentine Embassy in
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. He later served as Section Chief for the
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. Carranza, during the late 1880s, developed a correspondence with numerous relatives of key figures and veterans of the
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. He collected a wide variety of vintage weapons, documents, memorabilia, furniture and other items related to the 1810 — 21 struggle, and was later given purview over similar artifacts already on display at the ''Museo Público''.Planetario Galilei: Biografía de Adolfo Carranza
His initiative resulted in the establishment of ''Museo Histórico de la Capital'' (Historical Museum of the Capital) by Mayor
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on May 24, 1889, and with Carranza as director, the institution opened its doors to the public on February 15, 1891.Museo Histórico Nacional
Carranza initially operated the museum jointly with a commission led by former Presidents
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,
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, and other members of the
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, which he joined in 1901. He steadily expanded the museum's collections with both outside donations, as well as his own, which included an antiquarian library of over 8,000 volumes and his
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collection. He published a historical journal, ''La Revista Nacional'', until 1893, and later established the museum periodical, ''Revista del Museo''. Carranza secured the museum's relocation to the former Lezama mansion (in what became Lezama Park) in 1897. A professional historian, he authored numerous works on the fitful
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, including ''Hojas históricas'' (1893), ''Leyendas Nacionales'' (1894), and ''
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(y su correspondencia)'', a 1905 anthology of the Liberator's correspondence. He created a compendium of prized documents held by the General Archive of the Nation, and published two further periodicals, ''Ilustración Histórica Argentina'' (1908), and ''La Ilustración Histórica'' (1911). He died suddenly in Buenos Aires in 1914, at age 57. He was interred at
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