[Guillermo Hernandez de Alba, 1906-1988]. 1838-1969.

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[Guillermo Hernandez de Alba, 1906-1988]. 1838-1969.

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This collection is one portion of a library collection purchased in 1969 by the UWG history department in support of a developing Latin American studies program led by Dr. Eugene Huck. It is said this collection was the genesis of the university's Special Collections. The collection was acquired from Guillermo Hernandez de Alba, an esteemed scholar of Colombian colonial history, especially pertaining to Simon Bolivar and General Francisco de Paula Santander. The collection originally comprised over 600 books, but university catalogers dispersed almost all of them into the general stacks; therefore, it's not possible to formulate an inventory of what was acquired from Hernandez de Alba, though Dr. Eugene Huck said it was anywhere from 600 to 1,000 books. In Special Collections, there are two boxes of materials containing primarily pamphlets and other ephemera related to Bolivar and Santander, exhibits, celebrations of the anniversaries of their deaths, etc. According to Huck in a 2009 interview, the collection cost $6,000 and was eventually stored in the library basement after the initial scholarly interest died down. Huck said Hernandez de Alba sold the collection to pay for his ill wife's medical care. Ordinarily, Latin American scholars would donate their collections to institutions within their own countries. To sell their collections would have been dishonorable. According to Huck, the transaction was done covertly in order to not expose Hernandez de Alba to that dishonor.

2 boxes; 2 linear ft.

University of West Georgia, Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7449031

University of West Georgia, Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library

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Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830

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Hernández de Alba, Guillermo, 1906-1988

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Guillermo Hernandez de Alba was born in Bogota in 1906. A rigorous historian, Hernandez de Alba was the most prominent colonial historian of his time. He was a member of the Academies of History of Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, several academies of American history and geography, and Spanish and American Studies of the Société des Paris. He died in 1988. (See acquisition folder for obituary.) From the description of [Guillermo Hernandez de Alba, 1906-1988]. 1838-1969. (University...

Santander, Francisco de Paula, 1792-1840

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Francisco de Paula Santander (b. April 2, 1792–d. March 6, 1840), was a Colombian military and political leader during the 1810–1819 independence war of the United Provinces of New Granada (present-day Colombia). He was the acting President of Gran Colombia between 1819 and 1826, and later elected by Congress as the President of the Republic of New Granada between 1832 and 1837. Santander came to be known as "The Man of the Laws" ("El Hombre de las Leyes")....