Jesús Aguilar Paz [SEP] date of death
Jesús Aguilar Paz
Jesús Aguilar Paz (15 October 1895 in Gualala, Santa Bárbara Department – 26 June 1974 in Tegucigalpa) was a Honduran chemist, pharmacist, cartographer, folklorist and teacher.
In 1915, he was appointed Secretary of the Escuela Normal de Occidente in the city of La Esperanza, Intibucá, where he was later appointed deputy director. Between 1915 and 1933 he made extensive trips around the country, taking sketches and making notes, which would become the subject of several books. In 1931 he published "
Los Lirios" (The Lilies), El Danzón and "La campesina" (The Peasant Woman), among others
- Doctor Jesús Aguilar Paz (music and folk habits)
- Jesús Muñoz Tábora (director of the department of the National Folklore in the 80's)
- — Compilation of tales and national legends
- Luis Castellón (collected dances such as: "Destrocon", "Polca of the dish", for example)
- Professor
- Rafael Manzanares Aguilar — Honduran