Jorge Basadre Grohmann (February 12, 1903 – June 29, 1980) was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He was Minister of Education two times and director of the Peruvian National Library
Early life
Jorge Basadre was born to Carlos Basadre Forero and Olga Grohmann Pividal in Tacna, Peru, which was then under Chilean occupation. He started his education in the Saint Rose Lyceum of Tacna in 1908 but changed to the German School of Lima when his family moved to this city in 1912. He undertook his final year of secondary education at Our Lady of Guadalupe National School in 1918.
In 1919, Basadre entered the National University of San Marcos where he graduated as a Ph.D. in Humanities in 1928 and in Law in 1935. While studying, he also worked at the Peruvian National Library from 1919 up to 1930. He undertook postgraduate studies in the United States, Germany and Spain between 1931 and 1935.
Public life
Back in Peru, Basadre became director of the Central Library at San Marcos University, which he reorganized between 1936 and 1942. After a fire in the Peruvian National Library on May 9, 1943, Basadre was named its director and put in charge of its reconstruction. His work here included rebuilding the book collection and organizing the publishing of the Library magazine, Fenix. For a short period in 1945 he was named Minister of Education by president Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero. He was elected to the presidency of the Instituto Historico del Peru (Historic Institute of Peru) for the period 1956-1962. Peruvian president Manuel Prado Ugarteche named him Minister of Education a second time in 1956, a post he held until his resignation in 1958.
Publications
Basadre was a prolific writer; his numerous works on the history of Peru in the 19th and 20th centuries are still a benchmark for historians interested in this period. His publications include La multitud, la ciudad y el campo (1929), La iniciacion de la Republica (1929-1930), Peru, problema y posibilidad (1931), La promesa de la vida peruana (1943), El conde de Lemos y su tiempo (1945), Chile, Peru y Bolivia independientes (1948), El azar en la historia y sus limites (1971), La vida y la historia (1975) and Elecciones y centralismo en el Peru (1980). However, his most important work is his Historia de la Republica (History of the Republic), first published as a single volume in 1939. It grew in size with every new edition until reaching sixteen volumes in the 6th edition of 1968. By that time it covered with rigorous detail Peruvian history from Independence in 1821 until the death of president Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro in 1933. Basadre supplemented his History of the Republic with the publication of Introduccion a las bases documentales para la Historia de la Republica del Peru in 1971 a thorough review of primary sources about the republican history of Peru.
Death
Jorge Basadre died on June 29, 1980, in the city of Lima at the age of 77.
Bibliography
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