Background
FURST, Oswaldo was born on May 9, 1897 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
FURST, Oswaldo was born on May 9, 1897 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Educated in Ouro Preto, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro. Graduate, in physical and natural sciences, Escola de Farmacia de Ouro Preto.
Secretary, Brazilian legation, La Paz, 1926-1929, Rome, 1930-1931, Montevideo, 1931-1934, 1938-1942, Buenos Aires, 1936-1938. Chargé d’affaires, La Paz, 1928-1929, Montevideo, 1933, Buenos Aires, 1946. 2d secretary of President Getúlio Vargas on his visit to Argentina and Uruguay, 1936.
Adviser, Brazilian delegation, Inter-American Conference for Consolidation of Peace, Buenos Aires, 1936. Delegate, Pan American Airway Sanitation Conference, Montevideo, 1939. Assistant, head, division of economics and commerce, ministry of foreign affairs, Rio de Janeiro, 1942, head of personnel division, 1943-1944, head of communications division, 1944.
Minister counsellor, Buenos Aires, since 1946.