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Felix Restrepo Mejia
Felix Restrepo Mejia S. J. (1887 - 1965); was a Jesuit priest, writer, pedagogue, classical scholar and humanist. Born in Medellin. Colombia, he was educated in Jesuit schools in this city and in Burgos and Ona. (Spain) and Munich, Germany.
He was rector of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, also a Jesuit school, in Bogota, between 1940 and 1949. By initiative of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, founded the Ateneo Nacional de Altos Estudios (National Athenaeum of Higher Learning) which became later the Instituto Caro y Cuervo [*], one of the most prestigious philological and linguistic research institutions in the Spanish language.
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