Rubén Vargas Ugarte

Rubén Vargas Ugarte

Rubén Vargas Ugarte (October 22, 1886 – February 14, 1975) was a jesuit priest and Peruvian historian. He was the third president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and was ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus in 1921. He was also the Director of the National Library of Peru.

Works

• General History of Peru. Edition 12 Vol. Milla Batres, Lima 1971-1984. The first five volumes are devoted to the times of the Viceroyalty and Emancipation, and the other to the Republic until 1980. The last volume (11 º to 12 º) the completed historian Margarita Guerra .
• Church History of Peru. 5 Vol Imp of Aldecoa, 1953-1962. This story only reaches to the late nineteenth century.
• Dictionary of Artificers Colonial Lima, 1937-1944
• Life of Santa Rosa de Santa María. Lima, 1945.
• The Viceregal Peru. Editor Peruvian Typography. Lima, 1962
• History of the Society of Jesus in Peru. 4 Vol Imp of Aldecoa, Burgos 1963-1965. It covers the period from the arrival of the *Jesuits and their expulsion in 1767.
• History of Santo Cristo de los Milagros, Printing Sanmartí, 3ra.Edición Lima 1966 .
• The Real Convictorio Carolino and their two luminaries. Editor Carlos Milla Batres, Lima, 1970
• General history of the Pacific War. Edit Milla Batres, Lima 1979

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Peru