Manuel Toussaint

He was born on May 29, 1890 in Coyoacan, Mexico City. He studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, and later at the National School of Fine Arts (Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes), at the School of Higher Education and at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). ==Biography==

In 1916, he founded the publisher Editorial Cvltura with Julio Torri and , who would become the most important publisher of classical and contemporary literary texts in the first half of the 20th century. Between 1928 and 1929, he directed the National School of Fine Arts, where he taught art history and colonial history. In 1935 he founded the Art Laboratory of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, now called the Institute of Aesthetic Research, and directed it from 1938 until his death in 1955. Between 1945 and 1954, he directed the Department of colonial monuments of México, dependant of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. In 1952, he was named Mexico's representative at the . Toussaint traveled to the Art History Congress celebrated in Venice, Italy in 1955. He died returning from the trip in New York City on November 9, 1955. ==Works==

Toussaint was a critic, essayist, poet, writer, narrator of travels to Mexico and abroad, philosopher, writer of a children's novel and illustrator of his own books. and , published in 1948 and his most esteemed work. His most popular work was Paseos coloniales (Colonial strolls) from 1939. ==Distinctions==

In Mexico he was a member of El Colegio Nacional since 1946. That same year, he was given a masters degree ex-oficio' by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Between 1946 and 1955, he was a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia, with seat number 18. replied to his speech. ==References==