Background
RÍSQUEZ, Francisco was born on October 10, 1856 in Juangriego, Isla de Margarita, State of Nueva Esparta. Son of Jesús Maria Risquez and Fernanda Alfonso.
physician Surgeon and professor
RÍSQUEZ, Francisco was born on October 10, 1856 in Juangriego, Isla de Margarita, State of Nueva Esparta. Son of Jesús Maria Risquez and Fernanda Alfonso.
First assistant in the Guzmán Blanco Model School, Caracas, 1872. Physician (practicante) in the Military Hospital, Caracas, 18/2. Deputy to and secretary of the State Legislature of Nueva Esparta, 1877— 1878.
Vice-rector and subsequently rector of the Colegio Nacional of Nueva Esparta, 1878-1882.
Physician and surgeon of the Hospital of Petare, 1882. Member of the Board of Education of the State of Bolivar, 1883.
Primary school inspector (fiscal), 1884. Rector of the Colegio of Petare, 1885.
Acting professor of external pathology and obstetrics in the University of Venezuela, Caracas, 1887.
Member and secretary of the Council of Physicians, Caracas, 1888. Vice-rector of the University of Venezuela, 1888. Professor of general and internal pathology in the same University, since 1889.
Delegate to the First Pan American Medical Congress of Washington, 1892.
Physician of the Military Hospital, Caracas. Member of the Board of Primary Education of the Parish of Catedral, 1893.
Judge in the competitive examinations for internes and externes of the Vargas Hospital, Caracas, 1893. Delegate to the International Congress of Medicine, Rome, 1894.
To the First Pedagogical Congress, Caracas, 1894.
Member of the Supreme Council of the Venezuelan Red Cross, 1895. Rector of the University of Venezuela, 1898. Member of the Board of Hygiene and Public Health of the Federal District, 1899.
Director of hygiene of the same, 1899.
Delegate to the International Congress of Medicine of Paris, 1900. To the Congress of Medical Dentistry and Professional Medicine, Paris, 1900.
Venezuelan consul in Spain and subsequently chargé d’affaires, 1901-1910. Physician of the Victoria Eugenia Anti-Tuberculosis Dispensary, Madrid, 1905.
Of the Red Cross Dispensary (Central District), Madrid, 1908.
President of the Committee on Health of the Congress of Municipalities, Caracas, 1911. President of the Council of Public Education of the First District, Caracas, 1912. On an official voyage d’études to Europe, 1913.
Director of the School for Nurses, Caracas, 1913— Career: Joined the army on the occasion of the conflicts with Bolivia and Ecuador 1909 and 1910.
Subjected to political incarceration for an article suggesting amnesty to political prisoners, 1911. On a vovaqe d’études to Bolivia and southern Perú 1911.
To Europe, 1913-1914. Peruvian ’delegate to the Historical Congress of Seville.
Founder and first president of the National Democratic Party, 1915.
Official orator of the University of San Marcos at the tercentenary celebration of the death of Garcilaso the Inca, Cuzco, 1916. Professor of Incaic history of the University of San Marcos, 1918.
Academia de la Historia of Madrid, Société des Américanistes of Paris and The Hispanic Society of New York (corresponding). Instituto Histórico of Lima. Sociedad Amigos de Palma of Lima (president).
Married Elvira González. And latterly Eugenia Valery. Children: Two sons and two daughters (deceased).