Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Mejía (born April 27, 1918 in Medellín – died March 23, 2002 in Bogotá) was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as Colombia's Minister of National Education in two occasions, and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Gabriel Betancourt was born in Medellín on April 27, 1918 to Pedro Nolasco Adriano Betancur Toro and Mariana Mejía Arango as the youngest of 9 children. Betancourt was a member of the government of president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. He later became assistant director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was also head of the education
Gabriel Monod married Olga Herzen, daughter of Russian political thinker Alexander Herzen, in 1873. In 1876 he founded the "Revue Historique", which rapidly became a great authority on scientific education. Some of his articles in this and other periodicals have been put together in book form, "Les Maîtres de l'histoire: Ernest Renan, Hippolyte Taine, Jules Michelet" (1894); "Portraits et souvenirs" (1897: on Victor Hugo, Fustel de Coulanges, Victor Duruy, etc.) Gabriel Monod died in 1912 in Versailles and is buried there in the Cimetière des Gonards. Gabriel Monod Gabriel Monod (7 March 1844 – 10 April 1912) was a French historian, the