Estanislao Zuleta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Estanislao Zuleta

Colombian academic

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1935

Place of Birth: Medellín, Antioquia Department, Colombia

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1990

Profession: economist, philosopher

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Estanislao Zuleta (1935 in Medellín, Antioquia – 1990 in Cali, Valle) was a Latin American philosopher, writer and professor from Colombia.
He was known especially for his works on the universities being a professor for all his life.
More important than his writings, Zuleta is remembered by his conferences that were carefully recorded by his colleagues and pupils and published several times during his life and after his death in 1990.
He dedicated especially to philosophy, Latin American economy, psychology and education.
He let treaties on ancient and modern thinkers of a rich social and historical analysis over the Latin American cultural context.
He was an adviser in the United Nations, the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, the Colombian Institute for the Agrarian Reform (Incora), an adviser of former president Belisario Betancur Cuartas and a writer for Crisis Magazine of Medellín.
He was rewarded by the Honoris Causa in psychology of University of Valle in 1980.
The Estanislao Zuleta Foundation is the institution that keeps and promotes the legacy of the Colombian philosopher.