Speech delivered at the opening of the Third Argentine Congress of Ophthalmology, by Dr. Lisardo Novillo Saravia, President of the National University of Córdoba.

Author Biography

• Lisardo Novillo Saravia, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

  

  He was a lawyer, politician, professor, dean of the National University of Córdoba and rector of the National University of Córdoba. He was not only attracted by the University Chair, but also by teaching at the tertiary and secondary level. His classes of History of Spanish Literature at the Escuela Normal de Profesores, and of Spanish in the classrooms of Monserrat, left lasting traces in the memory of his students. Director of the newspaper "Los Principios" (1912-1915). Member of the Constitutional Convention of the Reforming Convention of 1923. President of the Bar Association of Córdoba (1931-1933), and years later he would be appointed First President of the Argentine Merchant Air Fleet. As far as his spiritual activity is concerned, he was President and re-elected in several periods of the Diocesan and Archdiocesan Board of the Argentine Catholic Action. On the occasion of the International Eucharistic Congress of 1937, held in Asuncion, Paraguay, he would be appointed by His Holiness Pius XII, civil deputy of pontifical legate. A public space in Argüello, Córdoba, a few meters from where he had his summer residence, and a street in Iponá, Córdoba, bear his name. Lisardo Novillo Saravia belonged to the Catholic-Hispanic nationalist group that had an important influence in the Revolution of 1943. In 1943 he was interventor Rector of the National University of Córdoba appointed by Gustavo Martínez Zuviría when he was Minister of Justice and Public Instruction, under the de facto presidency of Pedro Pablo Ramírez (1943-1944).