Background
CORDERO, Ergasto Héctor was born on April 9, 1890 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
CORDERO, Ergasto Héctor was born on April 9, 1890 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Educated Deutsche Schule, 1896-1903. Doctor of Medicine, University de Montevideo, 1916. Further studies in natural sciences, Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, 1922-1924.
Chief, medical. school. Assistant, in parasitology laboratory, 1919-1922, assistant professor, of biochemistry, 1925-1937, professor, of biology, since 1944. Zoologist in northeastern Brazil, 1935.
Professor, of biology, University de Caracas. Venezuela, 1939-1940. Director, Museo de Historia Natural, since 1942.
Cordero and Adelina Sloan.
Member (correspondent): Society Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, Academy Nacional de Medicina (Rio de Janeiro), Academy Brasileira de Ciencias, Société Française pour l’Avancement des Sciences, Society de Biología (Concepción, Chile), Academy Nacional de la Historia (Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Cuba).