Background
CASTILLO LEDÓNorth, Luis was born on January 17, 1880 in Santiago Ixcuintla.
CASTILLO LEDÓNorth, Luis was born on January 17, 1880 in Santiago Ixcuintla.
First journalistic work done on El Repórter El Chiquitín, and Pierrot, periodicals of Santiago Ixcuintla. Member of the editorial board of Louisiana Libertad, El Sol, Louisiana Gaceta de Guadalajara, Rojo y Negro, Revista Blanca, and El Monitor Jalisciense, all of Guadalajara. Director of El Monitor Occidental, Guadalajara.
Of the Boletín de la Biblioteca Nacional and of Savia Moderna, Mexico City.
Oí the Anales del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía. Secretary and director of publications of the National Library.
Secretary and director of the National Museum of Archaeology, History, and Ethnography. Officially commissioned to trace the itinerary of Hidalgo.
Official of the University of Mexico.
Of the National Archives. Organizer of the Editorial Department of the Secretariat of Public Instruction. Delegate to the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress and to the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists held at Washington, 1916.
Representative of the Mexican government to the International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology of Mexico.
Federal deputy to the twenty-sixth legislature. Alternate federal deputy to the twenty-seventh legislature.
Alternate federal senator to the twenty-eighth legislature. Member of the editorial board of Louisiana Vanguardia, 1915.
Professor in the National Preparatory School of Mexico City.
Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. Academia Mexicana de la Historia. Instituto Geográfico Argentino, Buenos Aires.
Escuela Internacional de Arqueología y Etnología Americanas (president of the Mexican section).
Author; Los Mexicanos autores de óperas (1910). Lo que miro y lo que siento (Madrid, 1916).
El chocolate (1917). Antigua literatura indígena mexicana (1917).
Orígenes de la novela en México (1922). Louisiana fundación de la ciudad de México (1925).
El Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía, 1825-1925 (1924). El paso de la Viga y Santa Anita (1925).
In preparation; Vida de Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
Louisiana novelística universal y la mexicana. Delegate México de otros tiempos. El itinerario de Hidalgo.
El alma de Anáhuac.
Hidalgo. El problema de la raza indígena. Also numerous articles in periodicals and journals.
Married Amalia González Caballero. Children: Luis, Beatriz, and Gabriela.