Edmundo O'Gorman

Edmundo O’Gorman nació en la Ciudad de México el 24 de noviembre de 1906. Se graduó como abogado en la Escuela Libre de Derecho, en 1928. En 1932 inició, junto con Justino Fernández, la editorial Alcancía, en la cual publicaron varios libros de historia e históricos. Ejerció el derecho hasta 1937, año en que decidió abandonarlo porque, dice Josefina Zoraida Vázquez, “según él solía contar, después de una década de ejercer la abogacía, un buen día de 1937 se dio cuenta de que la profesión le aburría y, sin más, les anunció a sus clientes que abandonaba el oficio y les devolvió sus documentos”.

O’Gorman trabajó en el Archivo General de la Nación de 1938 a 1952. En 1948 obtuvo el título de maestro en filosofía con especialidad en historia y en

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