BIOGRAPHYC SYNTHESIS OF FEDERICO CARLOS LEHMANN VALENCIA

Abstract

To approach Colombian intellectual history through the biographical portrait of a scientist, who held national significance and international academic ties during part of the second half of the 20th century, involved recovering documents from the Museum of Natural Sciences Federico Carlos Lehmann. Obtaining an approximate view of the atmosphere of the time when the individual gained notoriety was possible by linking it to the institutional consolidation of biology, considering its familial origins, and exploring the socio-cultural impact it could have had in the latter half of the last century, particularly among the growing urban middle class, the primary cultural market for the symbolic goods Lehmann offered.