José Elias Entralgo Vallina

Born in La Habana. He completed primary school at the Escuelas Pías de Guanabacoa and high school at the Instituto of his native city (1922). He graduated from the Universidad de La Habana with a Doctor's degree in Civil Law (1927), in Public Law (1928), and in Philosophy and Letters (1929).

Instructor Professor of Sociology at that University during the 1929-1930 academic year, he resigned during the tyranny of Machado.

In 1934 he returned to the University to hold the chairs of History of Cuba and Cuban Sociology. He was a member of the Section of Historical Sciences of the Ateneo de La Habana, librarian of the Sociedad Económica Amigos del País, founder of the Instituto de Altos Estudios de Cuba, corresponding member of the Círculo de Altos Estudios de Rosario (Argentina) and member of the Instituto Internacional de Estudios Ibero-Americanos de París.

He directed the journals Universidad de La Habana and Vida Universitaria. He was editorial secretary of the journal Bimestre Cubana. He contributed to Cuba contemporánea, Repertorio Americano (Costa Rica), Revista de Occidente. He delivered numerous lectures. He published his "Social History" in volume 4 of Historia de la Nación Cubana. He also selected the anthology of José Martí Political and Social Ideas.

He published more than 150 articles in newspapers and magazines. He gave at least the following five lectures in the Introduction to the History of Cuba course, organized by the Instituto Popular del Aire: "Tobacco Monopoly," "Uprising of the Tobacco Growers," "The Problems of Slavery," "Aponte Conspiracy," "The Republic: the internal political process," among other notable interventions.

His work as a literary critic, sociologist, and historian was abundant and from it the reader can document himself by taking a look at his vast bibliography, whose first titles date back to 1921 and 1922, when the author had not yet turned 20 years old and yet, his concerns as a researcher of Cuban literature were already enormous, focusing on the figures of Luisa Pérez de Zambrana and Domingo Delmonte.

Upon his death at age 63, he held the positions of Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, president of the University Extension Commission, and president of the Cuban National Commission of UNESCO.

Bibliography
Profiles (critical notes on contemporary Cuban literature). Editorial Hermes La Habana, 1923
Schema of Indo-Cuban Sociography. Molina, La Habana, 1935
Varona's Ideals in Social Philosophy. Molina, La Habana, 1937
José Silverio Jorrín; or Political Timidity. Molina, La Habana, 1937
History of Cuba. 20 Volumes. (Class Notes. Mimeographed Edition), Universidad de La Habana, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. Copy Department, La Habana, 1937-1956
Historical Synthesis of Cubanness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Molina, La Habana, 1944
The Deputies for Cuba in the Spanish Courts during the Three First Institutional Periods (Work presented by the corresponding academician in Marianao and approved in the ordinary session of April 20, 1944). Printing Press "El siglo XX", La Habana, 1945
The Genuine Journalistic Work of Enrique José Varona, Editorial Librería Selecta, La Habana, 1949
Doctrine of Progress + Mechanical Revolution = El Lugareño. Dissertation delivered in the Assembly Hall of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País on the night of Friday, August 8, 1952. University Press, La Habana, 1956.