Background
BASADRE, Jorge was born in 1903 in Tacna. Son of Carlos Basadre y Forero and Olga G. de Basadre Forero.
BASADRE, Jorge was born in 1903 in Tacna. Son of Carlos Basadre y Forero and Olga G. de Basadre Forero.
Educated Colegio Alemán (Lima), Colegio de Guadalupe. Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Law, University de San Marcos.
Professor; Professor history, faculty of letters, since 1928, faculty of law, since 1931, University de San Marcos, director of its library, 1930-1931, 1935-1942. Guest, Carnegie Endowment to study library organization in the United States of America, 1931-1932. Guest, Ibero-American Institute, Berlin, 1932.
Professor, Centro de Estudios, University de Sevilla, Spain, 1933. Editor, Boletín Bibliográfico, since 1936. Delegate, Congress of Americanists, Mexico, 1939, Pan American Scientific Congress, 1940.
Secretary general, Congress of Americanists, Lima, 1939. Guest, Institute of Inter-American Intellectual and Artistic Relations, United States of America, 1941-1942, faculty of letters, University de Buenos Aires, 1942. Minister of public edn., 1945.
At present director, Biblioteca Nacional. Member Academy Peruana de la Lengua, Society Peruana de Filosofía, Society de Historia y Geografía, (Chile), Academy Nacional de la Historia (Argentina), Société des Américanistcs (Paris). R. Carlos Basadre Forero and Olga Grohmann Pividal.
Member Academy Peruana de la Lengua, Society Peruana de Filosofía, Society de Historia y Geografía, (Chile), Academy Nacional de la Historia (Argentina), Société des Américanistcs (Paris).