Mario de la Cueva

Mario de la Cueva y de la Rosa ( born July 11, 1901 in Mexico City; † March 6, 1981 ) was a Mexican lawyer and philosopher and former rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM).

Biography

After visiting the Colegio Francés de la Cueva studied law at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia and later philosophy and history at the Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios ( ENAE ) of the UNAM.

From 1929 he held professorships at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia and at the Escuela Nacional de Economía. From 1938 to December 1940 he was General Secretary and in connection to the June 19, 1942 there Rector. In 1945 he became a member of the first Board of the University UNAM. From 1951 until his retirement in 1961, he was Director of the Faculty of Law at the UNAM.

As a legal Scientific he worked in the editorial committee for the Federal Labor Law, as amended in 1970 with and gave out numerous articles.

De la Cueva was honorary doctorate from the UNAM and the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. In 1978 he received the Mexican National Prize of Sciences and Fine Arts in the category " history ".