19 Facts About Jorge Basadre

Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country.

Jorge Basadre served during two different administrations as Minister of Education and was director of the Peruvian National Library.

Jorge Basadre was born to Carlos Basadre Forero and Olga Eloisa Grohmann Butler in Tacna, which was then under Chilean administration.

Jorge Basadre began his training at the Liceo Santa Rosa, a Peruvian school that operated clandestinely in Tacna but changed to the German School of Lima when his family moved to this city in 1912.

Jorge Basadre undertook his final year of secondary education at the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1918.

In 1919, Jorge Basadre entered the National University of San Marcos where he graduated as a Ph.

Jorge Basadre was a professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in 1928, teaching a course in the History of Peru.

Jorge Basadre undertook postgraduate studies in the United States and Germany between 1931 and 1935, receiving a scholarship from the Carnegie Institution to study in the United States and taking his courses at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Jorge Basadre was carrying out this task when he was wounded by a stone in the head, thrown by a Chilean nationalist.

Back in Peru, Jorge Basadre became director of the Central Library at San Marcos University, which he reorganized between 1936 and 1942.

Jorge Basadre was professor of History of Peru at Guadalupe College and at the National Pedagogical Institute ; exerted the doctoral chair of History of Peru at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ; and he was professor of critical history of Peru at the Chorrillos Military School.

Jorge Basadre was secretary general of the XXVII International Congress of Americanists, based in Lima.

Jorge Basadre was president of the Historical Institute of Peru, from 1956 to 1962; member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and member of the Geographical Society of Lima.

Jorge Basadre was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru in the degree of Grand Cross in 1979.

Jorge Basadre married Isabel Ayulo and had a son named Jorge Basadre Ayulo.

Jorge 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.

Jorge Basadre supplemented this work in 1971, with the publication of Introduccion a las bases documentales para la Historia de la Republica del Peru, a thorough review of primary sources about the republican history of Peru.

Jorge Basadre died on 29 June 1980, in the city of Lima at the age of 77.

Jorge Basadre's body was taken from the Clinica San Borja to his house at Orrantia Avenue in San Isidro, where his wake took place.