1967 - Felix Restrepo Mejia

Série Famous Men of Colombia - Felix Restrepo Mejia
Felix Restrepo Mejía (1887 - 1965) was a Jesuit priest, writer, pedagogue, classical scholar and humanist. He was rector of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, between 1940 and 1949. By initiative of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, (Minister of Education) founded the National Athenaeum of Higher Learning which became later the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, one of the most prestigious philological and linguistic research institutions in the Spanish language.