Background
ZABALA, Alfonso Rómulo was born on January 23, 1884 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ZABALA, Alfonso Rómulo was born on January 23, 1884 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Assistant, director, Museo Mitre, 1914-1931. Founder, information agency Austral, 1917. Administrator, daily Noticias Gráficas, 1931.
Secretary, national edn. council, 1932. Director, Museo Municipal de Arte Colonial, 1932-1942. Secretary, executive board of daily La Nación, and in 1936 assistant, administrator, at present chief of its archives.
Reorganized Museo Sarmiento in San Juan, 1938. Supervisor of municipal museums, 1942-1943. Vice-president^ and founding director of its Boletín), Institución Mitre (secretary in charge of publication of Obras Completas of Mitre), Institute Bonaerense de Numismática y Antigüedades (president), Ateneo de la Boca, Institute Cultural Argentino-Uruguayo (president), Academy Nacional de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, Círculo de la Prensa, Academy, de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, Asociación Cooperadora de Concordia Americana.
Member commission for public libraries, 1935-1943, national commission for museums, monuments and hist, places, until 1946. Member national commission to revise hist, and geography school texts. Member: Academy Nacional de la Historia (1st vice-president^ and founding director of its Boletín), Institución Mitre (secretary in charge of publication of Obras Completas of Mitre), Institute Bonaerense de Numismática y Antigüedades (president), Ateneo de la Boca, Institute Cultural Argentino-Uruguayo (president), Academy Nacional de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, Círculo de la Prensa, Academy, de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, Asociación Cooperadora de Concordia Americana.