Sergio Noel Aguirre Carreras

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Professor and historian, author of several books on the history of Cuba. He completed his primary and secondary education in his native city. While still very young, he joined the Ala Izquierda Estudiantil and the Liga Juvenil Comunista. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad de La Habana in 1941. For many years he worked as a professor of history and geography at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza de Artemisa; later, for a brief time, at the one in La Víbora (La Habana). In 1960 he worked as a technical advisor in the Ministerio de Educación.

He is one of the initiators of Cuban Marxist historiography. A tireless political activist, he became involved in student struggles from a very young age. For thirty years he combined teaching with historical research. An essayist, journalist, brilliant professor and keen researcher, he was a member of the Ala Izquierda Estudiantil, the Liga Juvenil Comunista and, from 1938 onwards, of the Primer Partido Marxista Cubano.

In 1961 he was appointed professor of History of Cuba at the Escuela de Ciencias Políticas and the following year he became director of the Escuela de Historia, both at the Universidad de La Habana. He collaborated in Hoy, Última Hora, Fundamentos, El Comunista, Dialéctica, La Calle, El Pitirre, Orientador Revolucionario, Nueva Revista Cubana, Cuba Socialista and Granma, as well as in Historia Moderna, of Moscow.

He represented Cuba at the XX International Congress of Historical Sciences (Vienna, 1965) and at the Conference of Historians of Socialist Countries (Moscow, 1965). Member of the Sociedad Cubana de Estudios Históricos e Internacionales and advisor to the Instituto de Historia of the Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.

Recipient of the Distinción por la Cultura Nacional and the Medalla Alejo Carpentier.

Work:
Lecciones de Historia de Cuba, 1960, 1961 and 1963
El cincuentenario de un gran crimen, 1962
Quince objeciones a Narciso López: (annexationism, slavery, mercenaries), 1962
Historia de Cuba (1492-1790), 1966
Eco de caminos, 1974