Barreda y Laos, Felipe (1888–1973)
Barreda y Laos, Felipe (1888–1973)
Felipe Barreda y Laos (b. 1888; d. 1973), Peruvian historian, lawyer, diplomat, educator. He was educated in a Jesuit school and at the University of San Marcos in Lima, where he became a professor. He was the author of several books, including treatises on intellectual currents in colonial Peru, Hispanic culture, and other diplomatic, educational, and historical subjects. Initially influenced by positivism, his view of the colonial past was critical of the influence of the scholastic tradition in Peru. In later works, however, he emphasized the unity of the peninsular and American Hispanic tradition and the beneficial effects of Hispanic culture in America. He also assumed a continental view in his diplomatic works.
See alsoPositivism .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
See his Dos Américas: Dos mundos (1952) and Vida intelectual del virreinato del Perú, 3d ed. (1964).
Alfonso W. Quiroz