Ricardo FERNÁNDEZ GUARDIA

Background

FERNÁNDEZ GUARDIA, Ricardo was born on January 4, 1867 in Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Education

Educated Institute Nacional (Costa Rica), Institute Winter (Paris), Ecole des Hautes Etudes (Paris).

Career

Minister, 1909; minister on special mission to Rome, 1900. Minister to Honduras (1904), Washington (1917), Panama (1920), Mexico (1921). Director general, national archives, since 1929.

Member Academias Costarricenses de la Lengua and de la Historia. Correspondent member Academias Españolas de la Lengua and de la Historia, Society de Geografía e Historia (Guatemala and Honduras), Academy de la Historia (Panama), Society Antonio Alzate (Mexico), Society de Éstudios Históricos (Buenos Aires). Officer, Orden del Sol (Peru).

Officer, Legion d’Honneur (France).

Membership

Member Academias Costarricenses de la Lengua and de la Historia. Member Academias Españolas de la Lengua and de la Historia, Society de Geografía e Historia (Guatemala and Honduras), Academy de la Historia (Panama), Society Antonio Alzate (Mexico), Society de Éstudios Históricos (Buenos Aires).

Connections

Father:

León Fernández

Mother:

Isabei Guardia

Spouse:

Ana de Peralta

child:

Alvaro FERNÁNDEZ GUARDIA

child:

Ricardo FERNÁNDEZ GUARDIA