Juan Friede Alter was a Ukrainian-Colombian historian of Jewish descent who is recognised as one of the most important writers about Colombian history, the Spanish conquests and a proponent of indigenism; the defense of the rights and descriptions of the oppression of indigenous people.
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Friede made the first documentary about San Agustín in 1942
In 1922, Juan Friede graduated at the Hochschule für Welthandel in Vienna
Friede founded the first art gallery of Bogotá, where he exposed works of Pedro Nel Gómez, painter of indigenous rituals
The conquest of the Muisca, famous for their fine goldworking, has been described in various works by Juan Friede
Friede wrote about the conquest in Venezuela and Colombia by the patrician Welser family from AugsburgAcademics born in the 1900s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1991 · aged 90
Written about in
9 languages
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