Background
VILLACORTA CALDERÓNorth, José was born on October 7, 1879 in Quezaltenango. Son of Salvador Villacorta Lainez and Clara Calderón.
VILLACORTA CALDERÓNorth, José was born on October 7, 1879 in Quezaltenango. Son of Salvador Villacorta Lainez and Clara Calderón.
Director of the Villatoro Institute, 1908. Professor of history and geography in the National Central Institute for Men, 1912-1920. Professor of penal law and sociology in the Faculty of Law of Guatemala, 1914— 1921.
Judge of the first instance, 1917— 1918.
Magistrate of the second and fourth divisions of the Court of Appeals, 19231927. Minister of Public Education, 19271929.
At present (1933) deputy to the Legislative Assembly, and director of the Biblioteca “Goathemala” (of the Sociedad de Geografía e Historia) in which have appeared some 18 volumes since 1929.
Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales. Escuela Normal Central. Sociedad de Geografía e Historia of Guatemala.
Geographical Society of Würzburg, Germany.
Academia Americana de la Historia and Junta de Historia y Numismática Americana of Buenos Aires. Academia Nacional de Historia y Geografía, Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, and Academia Nacional de Ciencias "Antonio Alzate” of Mexico City.
Sociedad de Geografía e Historia oí Honduras. Sociedad Geográfica of Lima.
Centro de Historia of Santander.
Academia de la Historia of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Married Ernestina de Villacorta. Children: J. Antonio and Carlos A.