Felipe Martínez Arango

Doctorate in Law, he also studied Philosophy and Letters. He was the founder of the Universidad de Oriente in 1947, and a defender of its officialization and autonomy, recognized four years later. By the middle of the 20th century, he was one of the prestigious intellectuals of the East of Cuba, as it is highlighted in a note from the local magazine Acción Ciudadana on the occasion of his election as a corresponding member of the Academy of the History of Cuba in 1949, consigning, among other merits, his outstanding work within the History Section of the Society of Geography and History of the East (of which he was its secretary), as delegate of the National Board of Archeology and Ethnology for Santiago de Cuba. Founder of the Commission for Monuments, Buildings and historical and artistic places of his hometown.