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Antonio Castro Leal was a Mexican

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diplomat

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and intellectual

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Biography

Antonio Castro Leal was born on March 2, 1896 in San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí

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. He received his licenciate and doctor of law degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

and his PhD from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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in Washington, D.C.

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Castro Leal was rector of UNAM

National Autonomous University of Mexico

in 1929 during the student strikes that ultimately lead to the university becoming autonomous, after which he resigned his post. In 1934 as Director of the Department of Fine Arts he inaugurated the Palacio de Bellas Artes

Palacio de Bellas Artes

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in Mexico City

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. He lived in Paris

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from 1949 to 1954 as Mexico's ambassador and executive board member for UNESCO

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, after which he moved to Coyoacán

Coyoacán

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, in Mexico City, where he lived for the rest of his life. He died on January 7, 1981.

Main posts held

(This is an incomplete list.)

Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

(UNAM) - 1928-29
Director of the Department of Fine Arts - 1934
Mexican ambassador to UNESCO
UNESCO
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- 1949-52
Member of UNESCO's executive board - 1950-54
Member of Congress - 1958-61

Works

(This is an incomplete list.)

Las cien mejores poesías liricas mexicanas (ed. with Manuel Toussaint and Alberto Vázquez del Mercado) (1914)
The Church Problem in Mexico (pamphlet) (1926)
Las cien mejores poesias mexicanas (ed.) (1935)
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. Ingenio y sabiduría (1939)
Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art - (introd.) (1940)
Revista de literatura mexicana (1940–1941)
El libro de oro del cine mexicano (The Golden Book of Mexican Cinematography) (coord.) (1948) (Comisión Nacional de Cinematografía, México, D.F.)
Las dos partes del Quijote (1949)
La poesía mexicana moderna (1953)
Una historia del siglo XX (1955)
Las ideas de Salvador Díaz Mirón
Salvador Díaz Mirón
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(1956)
La novela de la Revolución Mexicana (1958–1960)
El laurel de San Lorenzo (1959)
Un mensaje a la América Latina y una elegía por España (poem) (1960)
Alejandro de Humboldt y el arte prehispánico (1962)
El Primer Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (1963)
El pensamiento musical de Carlos Chávez (1963)
La novela del México colonial (1964)
Luis G. Urbina (1964)
Las tragedias de Shakespeare (1965)
Thoreau y su discípulo Cassius Clay (1967)
¿A dónde va México? Reflexiones sobre nuestra historia contemporánea (1968)
Hombres e ideas de nuestro tiempo (1969)
Díaz Mirón, su vida y su obra (1970)
El español, instrumento de una cultura (1970)
La poesía de Manuel José Othón (1971)
El imperialismo andaluz y otras historias (1984)

As a translator

Castro Leal also translated Maurice Dobb

Maurice Dobb

Maurice Herbert Dobb , was a British Marxist economist, and a lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-1976.-Life:...

's Introduction to Economics for Mexico's Fondo de Cultura Económica

Fondo de Cultura Económica

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Biography

Main posts held

Works

As a translator

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