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The University of Murcia (UMU) has discovered today in the courtyard of the Merced campus, a bust of the former first rector of the institution, Professor José Loustau.
The sculpture is the work of a former student of the Faculty of Fine Arts Christopher Hernandez Barbero, who documented with period photographs, documents and writings of Loustau own this biography that wrote Luis Valenciano Gaya.
The tribute, which presided the rector of the University of Murcia, José Orihuela, and the Minister of Education and Universities, Maria Isabel Sanchez-Mora, has included the unveiling of a plaque in honor of the benefactor Juan Lopez-Ferrer Moreno.
The plaque was installed at the entrance of the Faculty of Law, in the building that houses the UMU since 1935 and acquired Loustau own thanks to the mediation of Lopez Ferrer, who bought the property to the church and then sell it to University.
Juan Antonio Nuño de la Rosa, stepson, on behalf of the family Lopez-Ferrer and Francisco Loustau, grandson of the first president, expressed their gratitude to the University of Murcia to keep the memory of his family alive.
The Minister, meanwhile, has expressed the wish that the installation serves to bust college students more aware of the figure of José Loustau.
In his closing speech, the rector Orihuela, has glossed Loustau as the great architect of the survival and consolidation of this school, who led between 1918 and 1939.
These awards are part of the activities commemorating the centenary of the educational institution.
Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Luis Urbina
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