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Hugo Tolentino Dipp

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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 byEduardo Latorre Rodríguez
Succeeded byFrank Guerrero Prats

President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
16 August 1982 – 16 August 1986
Preceded byHatuey de Camps
Succeeded byFernando Amiama Tió
Deputy for the National District
In office
16 August 1982 – 16 August 1990
Personal details
Born(1930-08-28)28 August 1930
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died15 July 2019(2019-07-15) (aged 88)
NationalityDominican
Political partyModern Revolutionary Party
Other political
affiliations
Dominican Revolutionary Party
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • educator
  • writer

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

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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;[2] 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

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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

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

Literary works

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Source:[6][7]

  • PhD thesis (University of Paris): "Orígenes Histórico-Jurídico de los Estados Dominicano y Haitiano"(1959)
  • El Fenómero Racial en Haití y la República Dominicana (1973)
  • Significado Histórico de la Fundación de la Ciudad de Santo Domingo de Guzmán
  • El Colegio Universitario y el Logro de una Educación Integral en la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
  • Discursos desde la Rectoría
  • Perfil Nacionalista de Gregorio Luperón
  • La Traición de Pedro Santana
  • Papel de la Universidad en la Sociedad Latinoaméricana Contemporánea
  • Orígenes del Prejuicio Racial contra el Indio en América
  • Raza e Historia en Santo Domingo
  • Gregorio Luperón: Biografía Política
  • La Reelección de Balaguer: Una Polémica (1977)
  • Pasado Presente y Futuro de Nuestra Constitución
  • El Congreso, las Leyes y la Participación Ciudadana
  • Les Orígenes du Prejugé Racial en Amérique Latíne (1984)
  • Historia de la Separación de Poderes en la República Dominicana (1985)
  • La Influencia de la Revolución Francesa en la República Dominicana (1989)
  • Los Mitos del Quinto Centenario (1992)
  • Vocablos (1997)
  • Itinerario Histórico de la Gastronomía Dominicana (2007)
  • Palabra Nueva (2009)

Awards and honours

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Source:[7]

References

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  1. ^ Checo, José Chez; Sang, Mu-Kien Adriana. "Historia de la Cámara de Diputados - TOMO I. 1844-1978" (PDF). www.camaradediputados.gob.do.
  2. ^ a b c d 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.
  3. ^ Oviedo, Christian (23 April 2012). "Cremarán restos de ex esposa de Tolentino Dipp" (in Spanish). El Nacional. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  4. ^ Rodriguez, Ernesto (15 July 2019). "Muere el excanciller Hugo Tolentino Dipp". Periódico El Caribe - Mereces verdaderas respuestas (in European Spanish). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Murió Hugo Tolentino Dipp". www.diariolibre.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Dr. Hugo Tolentino Dipp". Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Dr. Hugo Tolentino Dipp". Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
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