Education
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica from 1977 to 1982 and professor of literature with the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He became an Academic Numerary of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in 1960. From 1980 to 2002 he was the Director and, in 2003, was named Honorary Director in perpetuity.
From 1965 to 1970 he was Director general of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.
In addition to his academic posts, he served as Mexico"s representative at United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the year 1963-1964 and was ambassador to Greece from 1971 to 1974. His personal library was one of the largest in Mexico.
lieutenant has been preserved in the National Library. During his leadership of the Fondo de Cultura Económica, over 700 new titles were published and he created the Revistas Literarias Mexicanas Modernas collection, which reprinted, in facsimile editions, the most important literary magazines published in Mexico during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
He also focused on rebuilding the general catalog by reissuing a total of 1084 titles of continuing cultural significance.
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Mexican Academy of History]
He was also a numerary at the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (Chair 28), beginning in 1993, and a corresponding member of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua and the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua.