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Jose Daporta Gonzalez
(1911–1989) was a professor of
Hygiene
and
Microbiology
as well as a prolific
Fine arts
Collector. Born in
Habana
(
Cuba
), the son of Galician
emigrants
, he returned to the land of his parents at an early age, where he started and finished his university studies, to become a professor of the
University of Santiago de Compostela
at a young age.
He devoted himself to his teaching career and to initiate and develop cooperation nexuses with different Latin-American countries; starting his work as a
“Galician Ambassador for Latin-America”
in the early 1940s and contributing to the creation of the
“Galician Institute for Cooperation with Latin-America”.
It is important to mention Daporta's insatiable interest in
culture
and
social anthropology
, which greatly contributed develop his skills as a tireless collector of all sorts of cultural objects from every single corner of the globe. At the time of his death in 1989 (in
Santiago de Compostela
) he was the owner of one of the most important fine arts collections in
Galicia
.
Unfortunately, the
Foundation
and
Museum
of
Fine arts
which was meant to be opened in
Santiago de Compostela
after his death, never came to fruition.
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