General O'Leary, Intimo

Diego Carbonell

Published by Caracas Editorial Elite Lit. y tip. Vargas, 1937

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In-4. 387p. Bound in half black morocco. Inscribed by the author. Carbonell was a Physician, diplomat and historian. He lived in Paris from 1911; There he met Rubén Darío, who was a doctor. In the French capital he began his activity as a writer; His first book, Chronicles and Silhouettes, was published using the pseudonym Alex de Tralles. At the outbreak of World War I (1914), he rendered his professional services to the French Red Cross. In 1915, he was appointed consul general of Venezuela in Paris. The following year, he gave birth to his Bolivar Psychopathology, a work that disturbed the Venezuelan intellectual environment due to its "scandalous resonance." Carbonell returned to Venezuela in 1916 and established his residence in the city of San Cristóbal, where he practiced his profession. Then, he moved to Mérida to fulfill the same functions and installed a private clinic; he was rector of the University of Los Andes (1917-1921). In 1921, he abandoned medicine and entered the diplomatic career and was appointed Minister of Venezuela in Brazil. In 1926, he was rector of the Central University of Venezuela. In 1930, he returned to diplomacy while holding office in Belgium. Five years later, he was appointed ambassador to Colombia, a position he also held in Bolivia (1939) and in Mexico (1941). During the years 1943-1944, he was deputy for the Sucre state. Individual of number of the National Academy of History (1943) and of the Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences (1944). Carbonell not only traveled the paths of behavioral science whose concepts he applied to the examination of historical (Bolívar) or literary figures (Rubén Darío), but also studied historiographic trends in American History Schools (1943) and was a constant popularizer of science, both in his books Venezuelan Naturalist Philosophers (1939), On Philosophy and History (1942), Around Science (1929), and in his profiles of Charles Darwin, Max Nordau (1919), Santiago Ramón and Cajal or in his studies on Luis Razetti (1933) and José Gregorio Hernández (1945). But Carbonell did not remain in the history of science; in copious scientific bibliography, he referred to the fear of death, sexual education, the problems of the so-called third age, sexual pathologies, creative neuroses, euthanasia. The figure of Bolívar predominates in his historical works. (codc3).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: General O'Leary, Intimo
• Publisher: Caracas Editorial Elite Lit. y tip. Vargas
• Publication Date: 1937
• Binding: Encuadernación de tapa dura
• Edition: 1ª Edición.
• Condition: Muy bien
• Signed: Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor