Hugo Tolentino Dipp Explained

Hugo Tolentino Dipp
Office:National Deputy
Term Start:16 August 2010
Term End:16 August 2016
Office2:Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs
Term Start2:16 August 2000
Term End2:25 March 2003
Predecessor2:Eduardo Latorre Rodríguez
Successor2:Frank Guerrero Prats
Office3:
President of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start3:16 August 1982
Term End3:16 August 1986
Predecessor3:Hatuey de Camps
Successor3:Fernando Amiama Tió
Office4:Deputy for the National District
Term Start4:16 August 1982
Term End4:16 August 1990
Party:Modern Revolutionary Party
Otherparty:Dominican Revolutionary Party
Birth Date:28 August 1930
Birth Place:Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Nationality:Dominican

Hugo Tolentino Dipp (28 August 1930 – 15 July 2019) was a Dominican historian, politician, lawyer, educator, former Minister of Foreign Relations and President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986.[1]

Early life

Born on 28 August 1930, the day on which General Rafael Trujillo was sworn in as President of the Dominican Republic, within an upper-class family of mulatto background; 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.[2] 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.

Career

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 Universidad Autónoma de 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, sister of businessman José Miguel Bonetti Guerra, with whom he fathered his only begotten Beatriz Micaela, thereafter they divorced.[2] [3] He remarried to Sarah Bermúdez.[2]

Death

Dipp died on 15 July 2019, at the age of 88.[4] [5]

Literary works

Source:[6]

Awards and honours

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Historia de la Cámara de Diputados - TOMO I. 1844-1978. Checo . José Chez . Sang . Mu-Kien Adriana . www.camaradediputados.gob.do.
  2. News: Ángela. Peña. A sus 84 años, Hugo trabaja y crea; no piensa en el retiro. Hoy. 2 August 2014. 16 August 2014. Spanish.
  3. News: Christian. Oviedo. Cremarán restos de ex esposa de Tolentino Dipp. El Nacional. 23 April 2012. 16 August 2014. Spanish.
  4. News: Rodriguez . Ernesto . Muere el excanciller Hugo Tolentino Dipp . 16 July 2019 . Periódico El Caribe - Mereces verdaderas respuestas . 15 July 2019 . es-ES.
  5. News: Murió Hugo Tolentino Dipp . 16 July 2019 . www.diariolibre.com . es-ES.
  6. Web site: Dr. Hugo Tolentino Dipp. 18 August 2014. Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic.
  7. Web site: Dr. Hugo Tolentino Dipp. 18 August 2014. Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana.

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