Background
ESCOBAR, T was born on February 13, 1878 in Asunción. Son of General Patricio Escobar and Ignacia Garcete.
ESCOBAR, T was born on February 13, 1878 in Asunción. Son of General Patricio Escobar and Ignacia Garcete.
Acting professor of descriptive anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Asunción, 1905-1907. Of operative medicine in the same faculty, 1906-1907. Delegate of Paraguay to the First Pan-American Scientific Congress of Santiago de Chile, 1908-1909.
Director of the Bureau of Public Welfare, 1909-1917.
Delegate to the International American Congress of Medicine and Hygiene of Buenos Aires (held on the occasion of the Argentine Centenary), 1910. Delegate to the International Convention of Sanitation of Montevideo, 1914.
Head surgeon ad honorem of the Bureau of Public Welfare, 1909- 1920. Surgeon of the National Hospital, 1920-1924.
Director-general of the National Department of Hygiene and Public Welfare, 1920-1924.
Professor of anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Asunción, 1920-1926. Paraguayan delegate to the League of Nations for the interchange of projects on personal sanitation and health with Hoi-. land and Denmark, 1924. Dean, and also president of the First Council, of the Faculty of Medicine of Asunción, 19251926.
Professor of clinical surgery in the same since 1926.
National senator since 1927.
Sociedad Médica del Paraguay. Instituto Paraguayo; Gimnasio Paraguayo: Sindicato Médico del Paraguay. Union Club; also various football clubs.
Married Maria Victoria Abente Haedo. Children: C. Desiderio and Maria Victoria.