Hugo Tolentino Dipp

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Tolentino and the second or maternal family name is Dipp.
Hugo Tolentino Dipp
National Deputy
In office
16 August 2010 – 16 August 2016
Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs
In office
16 August 2000 – 25 March 2003
Preceded by Eduardo Latorre Rodríguez
Succeeded by Frank Guerrero Prats

President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
16 August 1982 – 16 August 1986
Preceded by Hatuey de Camps
Succeeded by Fernando Amiama Tió
Deputy for the National District
In office
16 August 1982 – 16 August 1990
Personal details
Born 28 August 1930
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Nationality Dominican
Political party Modern Revolutionary Party
Other political
affiliations		 Dominican Revolutionary Party
Alma mater Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Universidad Central de Madrid, Université de Paris
Occupation Politician, educator, writer
Profession Jurist, historian

Hugo Tolentino Dipp is a historian, politician, lawyer, educator and currently a deputy of the Dominican Republic.

Biography

Born on 28 August 1930, the day on which General Rafael Trujillo swore as President of the Dominican Republic, within an upper-class family of mixed-race background;[1] his father, Vicente Tolentino Rojas, an intellectual and politician, who was minister and a friend of the recently ousted President Horacio Vásquez, had his residence in the National Palace; his mother, Catar 'Caterina' Dipp Attie, was a Lebanese-born socialité.[1] He did his secondary studies at the High School Eugenio María de Hostos in 1948, later he graduated as Juris Doctor at the University of Santo Domingo in 1953; in addition to another title of Juris Doctor from the Central University of Madrid in 1954 and specializing in Public Law at the University of Paris in 1959 during his exile in Europe.

In 1960 he started as an assistant professor of "History of the West Indies during the nineteenth century" for the University of London, on his return in 1963 to the Dominican Republic was appointed professor at the University of Santo Domingo after getting through competition the chair of international law.

From that time he was an important pillar in the academic and administrative reform of that institution, in 1966 he was a member of the Committee on University Reform, in 1968 he was elected Academic Vice President, from 1970 to 1974 he was Professor of Sociology and Dominican Social History, and from 1974–1976 was rector thereof.

He married Evangelista Ligia Bonetti Guerra, with whom he fathered his only begotten Beatriz Micaela, thereafter they divorced.[1][2] He remarried to Sarah Bermúdez.[1]

Literary life

Works

Source:[3][4]

Awards and Honours

Source:[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Peña, Ángela (2 August 2014). "A sus 84 años, Hugo trabaja y crea; no piensa en el retiro" (in Spanish). Hoy. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Oviedo, Christian (23 April 2012). "Cremarán restos de ex esposa de Tolentino Dipp" (in Spanish). El Nacional. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Hugo Tolentino Dipp". Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Dr. Hugo Tolentino Dipp". Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana. Retrieved 18 August 2014.


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