Background
TOVAR RAMÍREZ, Enrique was born on December 22, 1890 in Callao, Perú. Son of Enrique Tovar and Maria Victoria Ramirez de Tovar.
professor public official and journalist
TOVAR RAMÍREZ, Enrique was born on December 22, 1890 in Callao, Perú. Son of Enrique Tovar and Maria Victoria Ramirez de Tovar.
Educated Colegio Labarthe (Lima), Institute del Callao, 1905, and faculties of science and medicine, University dc San Marcos. Doctor of Science, 1911.
Director of various schools, 1913-1922. Editor-inchief, daily El Nacional, Callao, 1915, La Reacción, Carás. 1917-1919; co-director, daily El Perú, Lima, 1917.
Founder, administrator, customshouse of Chimbóte, 1924-1925. Secretary, ministries of foreign affairs, 1925-1926, and public works, 1926-1928. Chief, department, of labor and social welfare, 1932.
Professor, hist, in the high schools of Lima, 1931-1934. Peruvian consul in Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 1934-1938, in Antofagasta, Chile. 1938: consul general, La Paz, Bolivia, 1939, State of Washington, 1939-1940.
Director, Institute de Investigaciones Históricas, University Católica. Charge d’affaires, director of archives and library, ministry of foreign affairs, 1941-1944. Delegate, Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Lima, 1941, 5th and 6th Congresos Mexicanos de Historia, 1942 and 1943.
Counsellor, Peruvian delegation, 2d centennial of the archbishopric of Guatemala, 1943. Minister plenipotentiary on special mission to Cuba, 1944. Member Institute Histórico, Society Fundadores de la Independencia.
Member 3d Pan American Scientific Congress, Lima. 1925, 2d Congreso SudAmcricano de Turismo, Lima, 1928, Congreso de Historia, Montevideo. 1928; member 25th Congress of Americanists, La Plata, 1932.
Member Institute Histórico, Society Fundadores de la Independencia. Société des Américanistes (Paris, life member), Academy Argentina de Letras, Academy, de Artes y Letras (Cuba), S<>- ciedadc de Estudos Filológicos (Brazil), Academy, de Ciencias y Artes (Cadiz), Academy, ile Ciencias Antonio Alzate (Mexico). Member Academy, de Historia, Madrid.
Member Society Peruana de Historia de la Medicina, Society dc Bellas Artes, Institute da Ordem dos Advogados Brasileiros (Rio de Janeiro), Society Colombina (Huelva), Academy Chilena de la Lengua. Member geographical societies of Lima (director). La Paz (lion.), Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Sucre.
Married Delia Hortensia Villón de Tovar. Children: Danilo Enrique, Roberto Armando, María Enriqueta, and Maria Teresa.