Person - Gaibrois de Ballesteros, Mercedes (1891-1960)
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Gaibrois de Ballesteros, Mercedes (1891-1960)Other forms
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Paris 1891-09-18 - Madrid (España) 1960-01-25
History:
Mercedes Gaibrois Riaño, better known as Mercedes Gaibrois de Ballesteros, was a Spanish-Colombian historian, scholar and researcher.
Her parents were from Colombia; she was the only daughter of diplomat José Trinidad Gaibrois, chargé d'affaires in Madrid with a great passion for history, and Soledad Riaño Ruiz.
She was a self-taught woman without a university education. After her father's death, she traveled around Italy and Spain with her mother and married Antonio Ballesteros Beretta, professor at the Universidad de Sevilla and Count of Beretta. The couple had two children: Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois, a writer, and Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois, a historian.
She was the first woman to be appointed as a member of the Real Academia de la Historia (RAH) in 1935 and became the institution's perpetual librarian after her husband's death. In Colombia, she received the Orden de Bogotá, being the first woman to obtain it.
She passed away in Madrid in January 1960 at the age of 68. Her legacy lived on through her historical studies and in the research work of her son, Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois, professor of American History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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Investigó en el Archivo General de Simancas (AGS) de Valladolid y en el Archivo Histórico Nacional (AHN) de Madrid. Sus temas de investigación fueron entre otros: Documentos medievales; Reinado de Enrique III.
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Bibliografía en línea:
Dialnet: Breve biografía de Mercedes Gaibrois y Riaño de Ballesteros / Wenceslao Segura González
Biografía en línea:
Diccionario biográfico de la Real Academia de la Historia (RAH)