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Ospina, Tulio, 1857-1921


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  • Fuller Name

    • Ospina Vásquez

  • Variants

    • Ospina, Tulio, 1857-1922
    • Ospina Vásquez, Tulio, 1857-1921
    • Vásquez, Tulio Ospina, 1857-1921
    • Ospina Vázquez, Tulio, 1857-1921
    • Vázquez, Tulio Ospina, 1857-1921
    • Sabio, 1857-1921

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Ospina, Tulio, 1857-1922

  • Sources

    • found: LCCN 42-7705: His Reseña geológica de Antioquia, 1939(hdg.: Ospina, Tulio, 1857-1922; usage: Dr. Tulio Ospina)
    • found: Reseña sobre la geología de Colombia, 2013:title page (Tulio Ospina) inside front cover (born in Medellín in 1857 and died in Panama City, 1921)
    • found: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Fisicas y Naturales (ACCEFYN) website, August 16, 2023:(Tulio Ospina; Tulio Ospina Vásquez; born April 4, 1857 in Medellín; died 1921; oldest child of Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and Enriqueta Vásquez Jaramillo; the family left Colombia for political reasons (1863-1872); attended the Universidad de Antioquia (1872-1876); after graduation he joined the conservative army during Colombia's Civil War of 1876 and was wounded on August 31, 1876 in the Batalla de Los Chancos (Valle del Cauca); he was taken prisoner for six months and was taken to Panama and later traveled to Costa Rica until he was reunited with his family in Guatemala; he then went to the United States where he joined his brother Pedro Nel Ospina and they both studied mining engineering and metallurgy at the University of California and graduated in 1879; after graduating they travelled in the United States to Europe where they visited manufacturing and mercantile establishments, schools, museums, and libraries; they returned to Colombia in 1881; Tulio helped to reorganize the Partido Conservador when he returned in 1881; one of the founders of the Escuela Nacional de Minas de Medellín (1887); professor who taught courses in geology at the Universidad de Antioquia and the Escuela Nacional de Minas from 1904 until his death in 1921; participated in the political, economic, and social life of Antioquia and Colombia; his wife was Ana Rosa Pérez; father of Mariano Ospina Pérez; former president of the Academia Antioqueña de Historia; member of the Academia Nacional de Historia, the Sociedad Antioqueña de Agricultores, the Sociedad Antioqueña de Ingenieros, the Academy of Sciences (USA), and the Société géologique de France; and Caracteres generales de las minas de Antioquia (1906), Agricultura colombiana : notas de un curso dictado en la Universidad de Antioquia (1913), Reseña sobre la geología de Colombia y especialmente del antiguo Departamento de Antioquia (1911), Reseña de la geología de Antioquia (1939), El cultivo del cacao (1887), Informe del Rector de la Escuela Nacional de Minas (1912), La Quiebra del Nus (1887), Un demonio anfibio (1898), and Compendio de geografía : La Miscelánea (1887)) - https://repositorio.accefyn.org.co/handle/001/135
    • found: Academia Colombiana de Historia website, August 16, 2023:(Tulio Ospina; born 1857; died 1921; author of El cultivo del cacao; Juicios del señor Tulio Ospina con la Western Andes Mining Company Limited; and Proyecto de Ley "Que ordena la reorganización del Banco Nacional y fija la unidad monetaria de la República") - https://biblioteca.academiahistoria.org.co/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=author_see&id=4725
    • found: Servicio Geológico Colombiano website, August 30, 2023:(Tulio Ospina; born April 4, 1857 Medellín; died February 17, 1921 in Panama City; son of Dr. Mariano Ospina Rodríguez (president of Colombia) and Enriqueta Vásquez; brother of general Pedro Nel Ospina (president of Colombia); engineer; stateman; educator; author of Los cuadros sinópticos del Ministro del Tesoro; El cultivo del cacao; El oidor Mon y Velarde; Agricultura colombiana; and Protocolo hispanoamericano de la urbanidad y el buen gusto) - https://www2.sgc.gov.co/sites/Geocientificos/Activos_EnriqueHubach/B-7-tulio-ospina.PDF
    • found: Presidencia de la Republica (Colombia) website, August 30, 2023:(Luis Mariano Ospina Pérez; Mariano Ospina Pérez; Mariano Ospina; born November 24, 1891 in Medellín; died April 14, 1976 in Bogotá; parents were Ana Rosa Pérez and Tulio Ospina (died February 27, 1921 in Panama; brother was president Pedro Nel Ospina); grandfather was Mariano Ospina Rodríguez (president of Colombia, 1857-1861); degree in mining engineering at the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (1912), which was founded by his father Tulio Ospina; editor of the political newspaper La Joven Antioquia in 1909; master's in sugar from the University of Louisiana; studied at the Institut Montefiori in Liège (Belgium); returned to Colombia in 1914; president of the Concejo Municipal de Medellín (1915-1917); congressman, Asamblea Departamental de Antioquia (1917-1919; 1921-1923); superintendent of Ferrocarril de Antioquia (1919-1920); director of the Escuela Nacional de Minas de Medellín for two years; senator representing the department of Antioquia; was instrumental in the creation of the Banco Agrícola Hipotecario; Ministro de Obras Públicas (1926-1927); founding member of the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros; president of Colombia (1946-1950)) - http://wsp.presidencia.gov.co/asiescolombia/presidentes/rc_52.html
    • found: Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 1868:page 224 (Pedro Del [i.e. Nel] Ospina and Tulio Ospina were elected as resident members on August 4, 1879) - https://archive.org/details/memoirsofcalifor221997cali/page/224/mode/2up?q=tulio+ospina
    • found: Diccionario biográfico de antioqueños, 2008:page 532, etc. (Tulio Ospina Vásquez; also known as El Sabio; born April 4, 1857 in Medellín; died February 17, 1921 in Panama where he had traveled because of his health; son of General Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and his third wife Enriqueta Vásquez Jaramillo; began his studies in 1872 with the Jesuits in Guatemala; after returning to Medellín he studied math, literature, and natural sciences at the Universidad de Antioquia where he was later a professor; became the rector of the Escuela de Minas in 1888 when he replaced his brother Pedro Nel; bachelor's in science, University of California (1879); mining engineer; professor of analytic chemistry; traveled with his brother Pedro Nel in the United States, France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy; geology professor in the Escuela de Minas; congressman/diputado in the Legislatura de Antioquia (1884); representative to the Congreso Nacional (1888-1890); Ministro de Instrucción Pública (1909); senator; member of the Societé de Geologique de France and the California Academy of Sciences; miembro de número of the Academia Colombiana de Historia (beginning in 1902); founding member of the Academia Antioqueña de Historia; wrote for the newspapers El Deber and La Opinión; businessman ; author of El nuevo pleito sobre la mina de Sucre (1884), El cultivo del cacao : el cultivo del cacao en Antioquia (1888), La cuestión moral sobre los pleitos de las minas de Marmato (1894); Reseña sobre la geología de Colombia, y en especial sobre el antiguo departamento de Antioquia (1911); Réplica al folleto titulado Pleito Ribón-Ospina (1919) El oidor Mon y Velarde : agricultura colombiana; married to Ana Rosa Pérez Puerta (daughter of Bartolomé Pérez Acosta and Clara Puerta Uribe); children were Mariano Ospina Pérez, Sofía Ospina Pérez, Tulio Ospina Pérez, Francisco Ospina Pérez, Jorge Ospina Pérez, Mercedes Ospina Pérez (married to Miguel Navarro Misas), Gabriela Ospina Pérez (married to Guillermo Greiffenstain Vélez), Margarita Ospina Pérez (nun), and Ester Ospina Pérez (nun)) - https://ramhg.es/images/stories/pdf/genealogia-articulos/diccionario-de-antioquenos.pdf
    • found: Presidencia de la Republica (Colombia) website, August 30, 2023:(Pedro Nel Ospina; Pedro Nel Ignacio Tomás de Villanueva Ospina Vázquez; born September 18, 1858 in Bogotá; died July 1, 1927 in Medellín; son of the third marriage of Mariano Ospina Rodríguez (president of Colombia (1857-1861)) and Enriqueta Vázquez Jaramillo; president of Colombia (1922-1926); brothers were Tulio and Mariano Ospina Vásquez; in 1882 he returned to Colombia and spent time doing business in land and mining; he opened a foundation in Medellín with his brother Tulio; ) - http://wsp.presidencia.gov.co/asiescolombia/presidentes/rc_45.html
    • found: Ospina Coffee website, December 4, 2023:(in 1920, the First National Congress of Coffee Growers convened in Bogotá, presided over by Epifanio Montoya, Alfredo Vasquez Cobo, and Tulio Ospina Vásquez (son of Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and brother of Pedro Nel Ospina Vásquez); ) - https://www.ospinacoffee.com/readfullhistory.html - https://www.ospinacoffee.com/readfullhistory-1-1-1/index.html
    • found: Fundación Mariano Ospina Pérez website, December 18, 2023:([email protected]; located in Bogotá; founded by members of President Mariano Ospina Pérez on July 8, 1976) - https://www.fundmarianoospinaperez.org/la-fundacion/&hl=en&gl=us

  • Editorial Notes

    • [Son of: Ospina Rodríguez, Mariano, 1805-1885 (n 85353322)]
    • [Brother of: Ospina, Pedro Nel, 1858-1927 (no 00037057)]
    • [Father of: Ospina Pérez, Mariano, 1891-1976 (n 83066885)]
    • [Father-in-law of: Hernández de Ospina, Bertha (n 50049654)]
    • [Uncle of: Ospina Vásquez, Luis (n 81013958)]
    • [Nephew of: Ospina, Pastor, 1809-1873 (no2014129278)]
    • [Grandfather of: Ospina H., Mariano (Ospina Hernández), 1927-2018 (n 85805385)]
    • [Grandfather of: Ospina, María Clara (no 99033662)]
    • [Grandfather (by marriage) of: Duque de Ospina, Olga (n 95088763)]
    • [Great-grandfather of: Ospina Duque, Ximena (n 2023046379)]
    • [Great-grandfather of: Ospina Duque, Bertha Olga (no2018062327)]
    • [Great-grandfather of: Ospina Duque, Diego Darío (n 2023044973)]
    • [Some sources have his apellido materno as Vázquez and others as Vásquez.]

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    • 1987-05-20: new
    • 2023-12-19: revised

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