Background
SARMIENTO LUQUE, Nicanor was born on January 10, 1874 in Villa del Rosario, Province of Córdoba. Son of Samuel Sarmiento and Teresa Luque.
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Nicanor SARMIENTO LUQUE, Argentine lawyer Awarded the medal of the Minister of Public Instruction by the National Historical Congress of 1929 for his work Historia del libro y de las bibliotecas argentinas; awarded the gold medal of the President of Argentina by the Congress of American History of 1933 for his work Concento histórico de la economía en las civilizaciones autóctonas del nuevo mundo.
Career
At one time inspector of schools. Founder and head of the first Popular University (Universidad Popular) in Buenos Aires since 1904. Founder of the Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecas, 1908, and at present president of the same.
Organized the Child Welfare Congress of Buenos Aires, 1913.
Organized the American Congress of History and Bibliography of Buenos Aires. 1916, which created the Academia Americana de la Historia, of which institution he is the present president
As president of the Academia Doctor Sarmiento has organized three American congresses of history and four of Argentine history. Member of numerous other congresses, both in Argentina and abroad.
Membership
Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecas. Academia Americana de Historia. Sociedad Científica Argentina.
Instituto Geográfico Argentino.
Museo Social Argentino (charter member). Asociación Nacional del Profesorado (idem (the same)).
Instituto Criminológico of Buenos Aires (sectional head in 1912). Honorary Member: Sociedad Geográfica of Louisiana Paz.
Sociedad de Geografía of Cuba.
Sociedad de Geografía e Historia of Honduras. Corresponding Member: Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras. Instituto Histórico e Geográfico of Ceará, Brazil.
Junta de Historia Nacional of Uruguay.
Connections
Married Catalina Luque.
Education
Awards
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Awarded the medal of the Minister of Public Instruction by the National Historical Congress of 1929 for his work Historia del libro y de las bibliotecas argentinas. Awarded the gold medal of the President of Argentina by the Congress of American History of 1933 for his work Concento histórico de la economía en las civilizaciones autóctonas del nuevo mundo.Awarded the medal of the Minister of Public Instruction by the National Historical Congress of 1929 for his work Historia del libro y de las bibliotecas argentinas. Awarded the gold medal of the President of Argentina by the Congress of American History of 1933 for his work Concento histórico de la economía en las civilizaciones autóctonas del nuevo mundo.