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Juan Bialet Massé, medical lawyer and engineer

Juan Bialet Massé, medical lawyer and engineer

Let’s get into the personality of this man.

He was Spanish, he was born in Catalonia in 1846. There, he received his medical degree at the age of 22.

Five years later, he arrived in Argentina. He settled in Mendoza.

He was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the National College and then Vice Chancellor.

At the age of 28, he married a beautiful girl from San Juan, granddaughter of Francisco Laprida, who had been President of the Tucumán Congress that declared our Independence.

He settled in San Juan. There, he was appointed Rector of the National College of that province.

At the age of 30, this doctor decided to start a law degree.

At 33 years old – in just 3 years! and with a gold medal- he graduated as a lawyer.

As a reward for his qualifications, he was appointed Professor of the Faculty of Law.

I clarify, that in the Faculty of Medicine, he was already Professor of Legal Medicine. He later settled in Córdoba.

He published Medicine and Law books, which achieved great significance.

One of them won the First Prize of the National Academy of Medicine.

Bialet Massé, besides being an understanding but demanding Professor, was simultaneously a humanist.

He used to invite the students of his courses to his modest house on the outskirts of Córdoba. There future Notaries and Lawyers and also advanced Medicine students, received –of course selflessly- classes of their respective subjects, until the wee hours of the morning.

But Bialet Massé was a fragile man. The doctors advised her to reduce his tasks. But he did not obey them. On the contrary, with a partner, more practical than him, he became an entrepreneur, giving up his Chairs; and also, as if that were not enough, apart from being a doctor and a lawyer, he was studying Engineering, a career that he finished at the age of 60, months before he died.

And while still an Engineering student, he discovered the forging properties of Cordoba hydraulic lime.

So with his partner, they set up a lime and cement factory in the Punilla Valley.

The Government of Córdoba entrusted them, at that time, with the construction of the San Roque dam.

In a short time they finished the construction of the dam, which was at that time the largest in the world.

But Bialet Massé, who was a man of integrity and who had the healthy ingenuity of the noble in spirit, had harmed powerful foreign companies with his small factory, which competed to build the dam. For those companies, he was considered an enemy.

And they slandered him and hurt him with lies, since they could not hurt him with truths.

A campaign was launched against him.

He was unaware, intelligent as he was, that the higher a man climbs, the stronger winds he endures.

The opposition preaching was so great that they even predicted the collapse of the dam.

Experts bought by large companies, endorsed injustice and falsehood.

And not only financial ruin came to him.

At the age of 47, he was even arrested and sent to jail, with false arguments.

13 months in prison destroyed him physically and morally.

Ultimately, he was acquitted.

But he felt definitely defeated.

He lived a few more years between admissions to hospitals and periods of convalescence, until April 22, 1907 when, being only 60 years old, he began to look at us from heaven.

And a final aphorism for this exemplary and modest man, who wants to be a tribute to his spiritual values.

“Glory tends to caress those who do not seek it…”

Juan Bialet Massé, doctor, lawyer and engineer. By Jose Narosky

“The modesty of genius contains pride. But it’s always intimate.”

Some time ago, an Argentine documentary film premiered in Buenos Aires with this title: “Bialet Massé, a Century Later”.

Many will know that there is a town in the Province of Córdoba, which bears the name of Bialet Massé.

And I think that even fewer know that in the Barrio de Flores, in Buenos Aires, there is a small street of only two blocks with the same name.

Let’s get into the personality of this man.

He was Spanish, he was born in Catalonia in 1846. There, he received his medical degree at the age of 22.

Five years later, he arrived in Argentina. He settled in Mendoza.

He was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the National College and then Vice Chancellor.

At the age of 28, he married a beautiful girl from San Juan, granddaughter of Francisco Laprida, who had been President of the Tucumán Congress that declared our Independence.

He settled in San Juan. There, he was appointed Rector of the National College of that province.

At the age of 30, this doctor decided to start a law degree.

At 33 years old – in just 3 years! and with a gold medal- he graduated as a lawyer.

As a reward for his qualifications, he was appointed Professor of the Faculty of Law.

I clarify, that in the Faculty of Medicine, he was already Professor of Legal Medicine. He later settled in Córdoba.

He published Medicine and Law books, which achieved great significance.

One of them won the First Prize of the National Academy of Medicine.

Bialet Massé, besides being an understanding but demanding Professor, was simultaneously a humanist.

He used to invite the students of his courses to his modest house on the outskirts of Córdoba. There future Notaries and Lawyers and also advanced Medicine students, received –of course selflessly- classes of their respective subjects, until the wee hours of the morning.

But Bialet Massé was a fragile man. The doctors advised her to reduce his tasks. But he did not obey them. On the contrary, with a partner, more practical than him, he became an entrepreneur, giving up his Chairs; And also, as if that were not enough, apart from being a doctor and a lawyer, he was studying Engineering, a career that he finished at the age of 60, months before he died.

And while still an Engineering student, he discovered the forging properties of Cordoba hydraulic lime.

So with his partner, they set up a lime and cement factory in the Punilla Valley.

The Government of Córdoba entrusted them, at that time, with the construction of the San Roque dam.

In a short time they finished the construction of the dam, which was at that time the largest in the world.

But Bialet Massé, who was a man of integrity and who had the healthy ingenuity of the noble in spirit, had harmed powerful foreign companies with his small factory, which competed to build the dam. For those companies, he was considered an enemy.

And they slandered him and hurt him with lies, since they could not hurt him with truths.

A campaign was launched against him.

He was unaware, intelligent as he was, that the higher a man climbs, the stronger winds he endures.

The opposition preaching was so great that they even predicted the collapse of the dam.

Experts bought by large companies, endorsed injustice and falsehood.

And not only financial ruin came to him.

At the age of 47, he was even arrested and sent to jail, with false arguments.

13 months in prison destroyed him physically and morally.

Ultimately, he was acquitted.

But he felt definitely defeated.

He lived a few more years between admissions to hospitals and periods of convalescence, until April 22, 1907 when, being only 60 years old, he began to look at us from heaven.

And a final aphorism for this exemplary and modest man, who wants to be a tribute to his spiritual values.

“Glory tends to caress those who do not seek it…”

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