María Ugarte

Biography María Ugarte was born in Segovia, Old Castile, Spain, to Comdt. Jerónimo de Ugarte Roure, a Basque soldier who became civil governor of Zamora in the second Republican biennium.

Ugarte España obtained a degree in Philosophy and Literature (1935) at the Central University of Madrid (now Complutense University of Madrid), specializing in Historical Sciences, and was assistant professor of the historian (1934–1936). They married and had a daughter Carmen.

The political situation in the country with the outbreak of the civil war and the rise of Franco, forced them to fled into exile in the Dominican Republic,

Between June and November 1943 she taught at the University of Santo Domingo the first course of Archival Science that was ever held at the Dominican Republic. She made the first Bulletin Index of the General Archive of the Nation, which was published in 1947. By 1945, Brusíloff and Ugarte divorced and the former moved to Venezuela.

In April 1948, Ugarte started her career as a journalist in the newspaper El Caribe, invited by its managing editor, Mr. Rafael Herrera; at El Caribe she was assistant editor, director of the cultural supplement (1963–1998), and director of Supplements and worked in there until she retired, in 2000. In 1950, she married with separate property to the cattleman José Antonio Jiménez Álvarez.

Works Origen de las universidades y de los títulos académicos Monumentos coloniales (1977) La Catedral de Santo Domingo, Primada de América (1992) Iglesias, capillas y ermitas coloniales (1995) Estampas coloniales (1998) Prats Ventós, 1925–1999 (2002)