Enrique de Gandía (February 1, 1906, in

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– July 18, 2000) was an

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, author of over a hundred books. He taught, as a professor of School of Fine Arts (1948), the University of Morón (1960) and the

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(1967), being co-founder of the latter two. He also held the chair of Political Science at the Kennedy University (1991). In 1948 he was director of the Buenos Aires Municipal Museum (now the Historical Museum of Buenos Aires "Cornelio de Saavedra"). His career was recognized with the designation as a full member of the National Academies of History (1930), Moral and Political Sciences (1938 ), Geography (1985), and the National Academy of Sciences (1987). In 1933, he co-founded the

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. In 1930, he co-founded the Paraguayan Institute of Historical Research, this institution and the

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it would appoint an honorary member. He received numerous awards, including Konex 1984, the appointment of Government of Portugal as Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (1991), honorary doctorates of the National University of Asuncion and

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. He was considered by Paul Gallez, member and initiator of the

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. He was the first to theorise that the fourth

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(called sometimes

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) in ancient maps was

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in his book ''Primitivos navegantes vascos''.

Publications

Partial list of the works published by Gandía: * ''Historia del Gran Chaco'' - 1929 * ''Límites de las gobernaciones sudamericanas en el siglo XVI'' - 1933 * ''Los derechos del Paraguay sobre el Chaco Boreal en el siglo XVI'' - 1935 * ''Historia de la República Argentina en el Siglo XIX'' - 1940 * ''Historia de Cristóbal Colón'' - 1942 * ''Primitivos navegantes vascos'' - 1942 * ''Buenos Aires colonial'' - 1957 * ''Bolívar y la libertad'' - 1959 * ''Nicolás Avellaneda: Sus ideas y su tiempo'' - 1985 * ''Simón Bolívar: Su pensamiento político'' - 1984 * ''Historia de las ideas políticas en la Argentina'' - 1988 * ''Nueva historia de América, la libertad y la antilibertad'' - 1988 * ''Nueva historia del descubrimiento de América'' - 1987 * ''Américo Vespucci y sus cinco viajes al nuevo mundo'' - 1990

External links

Fundación Konex
(in Spanish)
Academia Porteña del Lunfardo
(in Spanish)

(in Spanish)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gandia, Enrique De 1906 births 2000 deaths Writers from Buenos Aires 20th-century Argentine historians Argentine male writers Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery Argentine male non-fiction writers

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