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Adolfo Aristeguieta Gramcko
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Adolfo Aristeguieta Gramcko (January 1929, in Caracas – August 1998) was a Venezuelan writer, medical doctor, Scout leader and ambassador to Germany.
Aristeguieta attended primary school in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state, about 260 km west of the capital.
He continued through secondary education at the Colegio La Salle in Caracas, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences.
He then studied medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Escuela Luis Razetti and earned the title of Surgeon, and subsequently a Doctorate in Medicine with a thesis on tropical medicine.
He studied psychiatry in Chile and Switzerland, and became a specialist in this area.
Aristeguieta was linked to the Venezuelan Council of the Child, where he worked for the boys who had to stay home for observation. (Juvenile Detention)
He designed and directed the "Camping as a Scout" programme, an activity conducted by Scouts for participants who are boys with very low income, or from marginal areas, or (so-called) 'of the street'.
He joined the Venezuelan Society for the History of Medicine.
He was a diplomat of Venezuela. President Luis Herrera Campins appointed him Venezuela's ambassador to Germany.
Besides Spanish, he mastered English, French, German and other languages.
He collaborated with publications in The Homeopathic Gaceta de Caracas and joined the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan Congress of Homeopathic Medicine.
When he was a child, Aristeguieta participated as a Boy Scout at La Salle Scout Group in Caracas, and in January 1963, in the Scout Camp School Paramacay, while he was the director of a Preliminary course for leaders of Clan. At that time he held the position of National Commissioner for Training. He was Executive Secretary of the Interamerican Scout Council when its headquarters were in San José, Costa Rica.
After the first Conference of Scouting in 1946, Venezuela became further engaged with World Scouting and the training scheme aimed at Gilwell Park.
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