Justo Rufino Barrios
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Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón was a Guatemalan politician and military general who served as President of Guatemala from 1873 to his death in 1885. He was known for his liberal reforms and his attempts t
Barrios, c. 1873–1885
Barrios' house in San Lorenzo
Francisca Aparicio y Auyón, 1892. Francisca was Barrios' wife. After his death, she left Guatemala for New York City, where she enjoyed the large inheritance her husband had left after his death.
Barrios (Circa 1871)
The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala is the largest and oldest university of Guatemala; it is also the fourth founded in the Americas. Established in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the Spanish
Saint Carlo Borromeo, by Giovanni Ambrogio Figino. Oil on canvas, 41 × 48 cm. Biblioteca Ambrosiana. The University of San Carlos was established under his protection on 31 January 1676.
Section of the memorial to the first University in the city of Antigua Guatemala
Antonio Liendo y Goicoechea, a Franciscan friar, reformed education at the university. He was a professor of most of the eventual leaders of the Central American independence.
Doctor Mariano Gálvez during his gubernatorial term as Head of State of Guatemala. He founded the agnostic Science Academy in substitution of the religious University of San Carlos. He is buried in the museum of the university – formerly College of Law.