Background
COLMAN, Narciso was born on October 29, 1878 in Yvitimi. Son of Juan Vicente Colman and Rosa Isabel Cuellas.
COLMAN, Narciso was born on October 29, 1878 in Yvitimi. Son of Juan Vicente Colman and Rosa Isabel Cuellas.
Educated Escuela Normal, Asunción.
Telegrapher and head of various stations of the F.C.C.P., 1889-1894. Telegrapher of the National Telegraph Service, 1895-1897. Id. of the Buenos Aires-Rosario Railway, 1898-1900.
Official (in various capacities) of the courts of Paraguay, 1901-1903. Justice of the peace in Caballero, 1904-1909. Head and inspector general of the National Telegraph Service, 1910-1912.
Justice of the peace in San Bernardino, 1913-1919. Judge of the Criminal Court of San Roque from 1919 until his retirement in 1924. Member of the Twentieth Congress of Americanists, Rio de Janeiro, 1922.
Of the Second International Congress of the History and Geography of America, Asunción, 1926. Named member of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation of Paris to take part in the organization of the Paraguayan section of the same, 1927. Member of the Commission on Aboriginal Philology of the Historical and Geographical Museum of Asunción, 1929.
Delegate to the Seventh Pan-American Scientific Congress, Mexico City, 1932.
Member commission of aboriginal philology, Museo Histórico y Etnográfico, Asunción, 1929. Member: Society Fluminense de Jurisprudencia (Brazil), Institute Paraguayo de Investigaciones Históricas. Member Círculo de Altos Estudios (Rosario, Argentina).
Member Unión Telegrafistas del Paraguay.
Married Victoria Mersán. Children: Maria Victoria.