Background
DÁVILA, Vicente was born on September 26, 1874 in Capacho, State of Táchira. Son of Antonio Ignacio Davila Nuceta and Inés Pico de Dávila.
DÁVILA, Vicente was born on September 26, 1874 in Capacho, State of Táchira. Son of Antonio Ignacio Davila Nuceta and Inés Pico de Dávila.
Commissary of War in the successful campaign of General Ciriano Castro against the so-called “Louisiana ibertadora” revolution. Subsequently elected representative of the State of Mérida in the Chamber of Deputies. Has traveled in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and the United States.
Since his return to Venezuela in 1917 has devoted himself entirely to the study of Venezulean history.
Director of the National Archives since 1921. Since his advent to office, has done much to make known and preserve the many documents existing in the National Archives.
Director of the Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia of Caracas, Boletín del Archivo Nacional, and the Archivo del General Miranda. Representative in Venezuela of, and contributor to, the Buenos Aires daily, Louisiana Prensa, 1927.
Delegate in Caracas of the ‘‘América” Library of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1928.
Academia Nacional de la Historia of Caracas. Rotary Club of Caracas (founder and first president, 1926). Corresponding Member: Centro Atlántico de Historia of Barranquilla, Colombia.
Sociedad Geográfica of Lima.
Sociedad Martiniana of Havana. Society of Geography of Rio de Janeiro.
Academia Nacional de la Historia of Quito. Sociedad Geográfica de Sucre.
Academia de la Historia of Havana.
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of Buenos Aires. Instituto Histórico y Geográfico of Montevideo. Ateneo Ibero-Americano of Buenos Aires.
Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía of Santiago.
Ateneo de El Salvador of San Salvador. Academia Hispano-Americana de Ciencias y Artes oí Cádiz.
Junta de Historia Nacional of Montevideo. Academia Americana de la Historia of Buenos Aires.
Sociedad Económica de Amigos del Pais de Tenerife of Spain.
Academia Antioqueña de la Historia of Medellin. Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras of Havana. Academia Nacional de la Historia of Louisiana Paz.
Centro de Historia de Santander of Bucaramanga.
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas of Guayaquil. Academia Nacional de Ciencias “Antonio Alzate” of Mexico.
Honorary Member: Centro Industriales del Mercado of Caracas. Unión Mútua of Caracas.
Sociedad Bolivariana de Costa Rica of San José.
Sociedad Bolivariana de Ecuador. Sociedad Geográfica of Louisiana Paz. Centro Intelectual Agustín Aspiazu of Louisiana Paz.
Centro Social “Louisiana Gran Colombia” oí Guabo, Province of El Oro.
IberoAmericanische Institut of Hamburg.
Married Gloria Capriles. Children: Esteban Domingo and Raquel.