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= Biography = Carlos Máximo Dobal Márquez was born on April 13, 1926 in Havana and died on July 25, 2011. Descendant of Spanish conquerors, independentists and Dominican restorers. Son of the architect Juan Dobal Román, born in Santiago de los Caballeros and Ernestina Márquez Rodríguez de Dobal, born in Havana.

Carlos Máximo Dobal Márquez was born on April 13, 1926 in Havana and died on July 25, 2011. Descendant of Spanish conquerors, independentists and Dominican restorers. They are of the architect Juan Dobal Román, born in Santiago de los Caballeros and Ernestina Márquez Rodríguez de Dobal, born in Havana.

At the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra he was Director of the Department of History and Geography and the Department of Social Sciences, he was in charge of the chairs of History of Culture, History of Art and History of Political and Social Ideas. He was a distinguished member of the faculty of PUCMM since 1964, of which he held the rank of Associate Professor and Professor Emeritus. His presence at the Institution constituted a chapter rich in educational initiatives and accomplishments.

He was Director of the Diocesan Museum and President of the Diocesan Commission of Sacred Art of Santiago, member of the Conservation Commission of National Monuments, member of the Historical Cultural Heritage Commission of the City Council of Santiago and delegate in Santiago of the International Institute for the Conservation of Monuments and Sitios, advisor to the Archeology and Plastic Arts Commissions of the Museum of Dominican Man.

Full Member and Secretary General of the Dominican Academy of History. He was director of the Regional Office of Cultural Heritage of Santiago and Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Order of Malta, from which he held the Grand Cross of Grace and Devotion.

He was part of the Regional Committee of UNESCO and the Committee of Customs and Traditional Festivals of Santiago. Member of the Dominican Geographical Society; of the Lovers of Light Athenaeum; of the Photographic Group Thursday 68 of Santiago and the Ateneo de Moca. Corresponding Academician of the National Academies of History and Geography of Mexico and of Sciences and Letters of the Republic of Bolivia.

In the extracurricular field, Dr. Dobal created the PUCMM university Tuna and was a constant animator of artistic and cultural manifestations of all kinds. President of the Cultural Extension Committee of the University.

He obtained Diplomas from the Graduate School of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Central University of Madrid, from the Inter-American Academy of Comparative and International Law and from the Center for Advanced Studies of the National Institute of Culture of Cuba.

He was commander of the Pontifical Order of San Silvestre. He became worthy of national and international decorations, such as the Commendation of the Royal Order of Isabel La Católica, among others.

He exhibited the Academic Palms of France and received the title of Knight of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture. He received the Manuel de Jesús Peña and Reynoso awards, granted by the Ateneo Amantes de la Luz, and Eugenio Deschamps, awarded by the Alianza Cibaeña Society, both institutions representative of the illustrated tradition of this city.

He was Knight Grand Cross with Band of Honor of the Andrés Bello National Order of the Republic of Venezuela, Commander of the Juan Pablo Duarte National Order and of the Pontifical Order of San Silvestre. In 1985 he received the “Juan Pablo Duarte” National History Award from the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic.

Most of Dr. Carlos Dobal's works have been published by the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra:


 * 1) Santos de palo y santeros dominicanos (1973).
 * 2) Antigüedades, Arte y Tradición en Santiago de los Caballeros (1977).
 * 3) Los hebreos (1977).
 * 4) Grecia (1977).
 * 5) La Verdad sobre Jacagua (1979).
 * 6) Los Bárbaros (1979).
 * 7) Roma (1979).
 * 8) Herencia española en la cultura dominicana de hoy (1979).
 * 9) Evangelización La colección Apuntes de Cátedra: Aporte indígena a la integración de la dominicanidad (1985).
 * 10) El mundo medieval (1985).
 * 11) Santiago en los Albores del Siglo XVI: el solar de Jacagua (1985).
 * 12) Transición de lo medieval a lo moderno (1985).    Nuestra Catedral: la antigua Iglesia Parroquial Mayor hoy Catedral de Santiago de los Caballeros (1986).
 * 13) La Isabela: Jerusalén de América (1987).
 * 14) Cómo pudo ser la Isabela (1988).
 * 15) De los ideales culturales (1988).
 * 16) Odisea del ancla de Colón (1991).
 * 17) El Primer apóstol del nuevo mundo: biografía de Fray Bernardo Boyl (1991).
 * 18) La colección Cuadernos Isabelinos: Nuevas del nuevo mundo (1992).
 * 19) ¿Dónde están los huesos del Almirante? (1996).

Other publications are:


 * 1) Higüeros Rameados Dominicanos (Comité Regional UNESCO de Santiago, 1974).
 * 2) Santiago: Ciudad Victoriana (Comité Regional UNESCO de Santiago, 1975).
 * 3) El Agua en Santiago (Italconsult, 1975). [Fotografía por Wifredo Garcia]
 * 4) Santiago Gráfico Victoriano (Compañía Anónima Tabacalera, 1980).
 * 5) Panoplia Dominicana (Comité Regional UNESCO de Santiago, 1983).
 * 6) Habla Lilís (Biblioteca Nacional de la R.D., 1986).
 * 7) El Retrato de Espaillat (ONAP, 1989).

It was a fervent desire of this remarkable researcher to scrutinize the historical and religious roots of the "Athens of the New World", the cradle of the Evangelization of America.

Armed with a broad and multifaceted humanistic background, Carlos Dobal studied many aspects of Dominican history, culture and art.

Sober, austere, simple in his daily demeanor, but punctilious when protocol dictates it; passionate about the library and the cabinet, connoisseur and lover of the arts, attentive observer of society and the human soul; This cosmopolitan academic had the gift of seasoning, with humor and irony, the observations and anecdotes that he was amassing throughout the spatial and temporal geography and then recounting them out loud or capturing them in his writings (Miniño Gómez, 1999).

https://opac.pucmm.edu.do/virtuales/html/Dominicanos2/cdobal/biografia.html

Dobal Márquez, Carlos, (2007). Memorandum a mi memoria, Santiago de los Caballeros: PUCMM.

Espinal Hernández, Edwin (1999). Aproximación al perfil biográfico de Carlos Dobal. Recuperado el 24 de mayo de 2013, de, http://clio.academiahistoria.org.do/trabajos/clio168/Clio_2004_No_168-02.pdf

Muere destacado historiador Carlos Dobal (2011). Recuperado el 24 de mayo de 2013, de, http://www.elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=250916