| LC control no. | n 50016900 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Torres, Camilo, 1929-1966 |
| Variant(s) | Torres Restrepo, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Camilo, 1929-1966 Torres, Jorge Camilo Restrepo, 1929-1966 Restrepo Torres, Jorge Camilo, 1929-1966 Restrepo, Camilo Torres, 1929-1966 |
| Associated place | Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) |
| Birth date | 1929-02-03 |
| Death date | 1966-02-15 |
| Place of birth | Bogotá (Colombia) |
| Place of death | San Vicente de Chucurí (Colombia) |
| Field of activity | Liberation theology |
| Affiliation | Universidad Nacional de Colombia Université catholique de Louvain (1835-1969) |
| Profession or occupation | Priest Guerrilla Professor Sociologist |
| Special note | Brother of: Torres Restrepo, Fernando, 1924-2007 (n 97039862) |
| Found in | His La proletarización de Bogotá, 1961. Biografías y vidas, via WWW, 3 November 2016 (Camilo Torres Restrepo; Jorge Camilo Torres Restrepo; Bogotá, 1929-San Vicente de Chucurí, Santander, 1966); priest and Colombia guerrilla) <http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/t/torres_camilo_2.htm> Proyecto Filosofía en español, Fundación Gustavo Bueno webiste, May 8, 2017: (Camilo Torres Restrepo; Camilo Torres; born February 3, 1929 in Bogotá, Colombia; died February 15, 1966 in Santander; Colombian socialist, Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of liberation theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla organisation. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism and Catholicism; began studying law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, but later studied at the Seminario Conciliar de Bogotá; ordained a priest in 1954; graduated with a degree in sociology, Université catholique du Louvain (1958); professor of sociology and chaplain at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; author of La proletarización de Bogotá) <http://www.filosofia.org/ave/001/a230.htm> Revista Medicina, volumen 29, número 1 (76), marzo 2007: author's brother's obituary on pages 57-68 (Fernando Torres Restrepo; born November 29, 1924 in Paris; died of liver cancer at the age of 82 on January 21, 2007 in Edina, Minnesota; oldest child of Calixto Torres Umaña and Isabel Restrepo Gaviria; younger brother was Padre Camilo Torres Restrepo (died 1966 at the age of 37; member of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)); studied medicine at the Facultad de Medicina of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (1941-1946; received his medical degree in 1948; thesis: Estudio comparativo de desarrollo y la morbosidad infantil en Bogotá); studied at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland) (1950-1953); professor affiliated with the Departament of Neurology of the School of Medicine of the University of Minnesota (1961 until his retirement in 2000); was the honorary consul of Colombia in Minneapolis (beginning in 1961 for many years); miembro correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de Medicina de Colombia (1956); became a citizen of the United States in 1999; wife was Edeltraude Maria (Trudy) Schradin (died in 2003; founder of the Minnesota Academy of Seizure Rehabilitation (1959)); author of several works in English and Spanish) <https://revistamedicina.net/index.php/Medicina/article/download/76-13/443/1584> |
| Associated language | spa |
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