Felix Restrepo Mejía
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Felix Restrepo Mejia)
 |
This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (February 2009) |
Felix Restrepo Mejía S. J. (1887 - 1965); was a Jesuit priest, writer, pedagogue, classical scholar and humanist. Born in Medellín. Colombia, he was educated in Jesuit schools in this city and in Burgos and Oña. (Spain) and Munich, Germany.
He was rector of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, also a Jesuit school, in Bogotá, between 1940 and 1949. By initiative of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, (Minister of Education and later candidate the to the presidency of Colombia, assassinated in 1949) founded the Ateneo Nacional de Altos Estudios (National Athenaeum of Higher Learning) which became later the Instituto Caro y Cuervo [1], one of the most prestigious philological and linguistic research institutions in the Spanish language.
[edit] External links
- Rubén Páez Patiño. 1966. Restrepo, Felix S. J. Noticias Culturales, N° 61, 1966. Gran Enciclopedia de Colombia. Círculo de Lectores
- Felix Restrepo S. J. Autobiografía
 |
This Colombian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
