Draft:Joaquín Arciniegas Tavera

Joaquín Arciniegas Tavera (May, 1860 - October 3, 1930) was a Colombian historian, and diplomat in multiple countries.

Biography
Joaquín Arciniegas Tavera was born in May 1860 in Purificación, Tolima, (Granadine Confederation) Colombia, his father was Eladio Arciniegas Tellos of Basque ascendance, and his mother was Juliana (or Julietta) Tavera Scarpetta of Italian ascendance. His father died young, leaving his mother struggling to support the family. Joaquín married María Mercedes Villatoro Rugama on February 8, 1896, in San Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador. They had two children during their marriage, Joaquín Eladio and Mercedes Antonia. He was 1st uncle and through his work inspired notorious Colombian writer Germán Arciniegas.

Arciniegas was the Consul General of Venezuela in Colon, Panama in 1894 when Panama was a province of Colombia. . Later, he was also the Consul General of Ecuador. in both San José, Costa Rica and Managua, Nicaragua from 1906 to 1912.

Arciniegas Tavera visited New York on September 10th, 1907; leaving Puerto Limón, Costa Rica on September 3rd on board Prinz August Wilhelm; on his way to Europe to publish a book. In 1912 was a businessman and imports customs broker, established his commerce retail store "La Perla" in San Salvador.

Arciniegas made and published in Paris, France; one of the first maps of the city of San Salvador, in 1896; with the sponsorship of the Government of El Salvador, when on 22nd of May of 1896 J. Bonilla, Secretary or Interior Minister informed Arciniegas. It appears that he arrived in El Salvador in 1897 or the year before. He was also a historian, publishing several books in Colombia titled "Album de Autógrafos Hispano-Americanos", "Colombia Autógrafa" which was sponsored by the Colombian Government according to decree published and in Costa Rica, titled "The Soul of Latin America". He was a numbered member of the Colombian Academy of History, chair 33 from 1906. He made a collection of 300 pieces of Pre-Columbian gold from the Indians in South America in the late XIX century, which now is exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. . Most of the gold pieces have been carbon dated 1500 A.D. - 500 A.D.  The credit given to Arciniegas is not only that he gathered the collection but that he stipulated when he sold it through his brother-in-law José Daniel Villatoro Rugama in Paris in 1930, that the gold could not be melted, enforcing its survivability to current days.

Joaquín died on October 3, 1930, in San Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, at the age of 70. He was buried in his in-law's Villatoro mausoleum at the Los Ilustes San Salvador General Cemetery.

After his death, multiple manuscripts and letters from the Simón Bolívar era that belonged to Arciniegas Tavera with Simón Bolívar handwriting and signature, were donated to the Colombian Institute and Library Gold Museum, through Germán Arciniegas.

Additionally, his painting collections were donated through Germán Arciniegas to Museo Romántico that was founded by Doctor Eduardo Santos in the Marroquin's Yerbabuena Hacienda Caro and Cuervo Institute (Casa Marroquín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo ); which consisted of multiple miniature oil paintings authored by Jesús María Zamora, Ricardo Borrero Álvarez , Roberto Páramo , amongst others authors whose oil paintings were collected by Arciniegas Tavera.