José Nucete Sardi

José Nucete Sardi was a Venezuelan historian, journalist and diplomat.

Education

He attended high school and college in the city of Mérida at the Universidad de Los Andes, graduating with a Philosophy and Arts specialty in 1914. Later he studied at the Universities of Geneva and Brussels and attended free courses at the University of Columbia where he also taught Latin American literature.

Journalism career

Nucete Sardi was editor of the newspaper El Universal between 1922 and 1936. He was also director of El Relator in 1927 and director of the National Culture Magazine from 1940 to 1944, and the political-literary weekly magazine - Diagonal.

Political and diplomatic career

Nucete Sardi's career includes:

Director of the National Press Office
Secretary of the Venezuelan Delegation to the League of Nations
Inspector General of Consulates
First secretary of the Venezuelan delegation in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania
Director of Culture and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Education
Ambassador of Venezuela to the Soviet Union
Ambassador to Argentina
Two-time ambassador to Cuba
Companion Ambassador to the Quintero Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas responsible for the inauguration of its Cardenalicia headquarters
Governor of the State of Mérida
Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg

Publications

Aspecto del Movimiento Federal Venezolano -,
Aventura y Tragedia de Don Francisco de Miranda -,
La casa natal del Libertador - Birthplace of the Liberator),
Cecilio Acosta y José Martí -,
Binomio de Espíritus -,
La Ciudad y sus Tiempos -,
Cuadernos de Indagación e Impolíticas -,
La Defensa de Caín -,
El Escritor y Civilizador Simón Bolívar -,
EL Hombre de Allá Lejos -,
Huellas en América -,
Navidades del Libertador -,
Nieves, Gente y Brumas -,
Notas sobre la Pintura y la Escultura en Venezuela -.

He translated the 5th volume of the Ministry of Education's 1942 edition of Viaje a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente, by Alexander von Humboldt into Castilian. He also translated El Bosquejo de Caracas by Robert Semple and several original texts on the Miranda expedition of 1806.
He was also the author of biographies of heroes in the Venezuelan Jackson Encyclopedia and in the Biographical Dictionary of Venezuela, edited by Garrido, Mosque and Co..