“The mountain range (Amerrisque) is on one side, because one of its columns, the teacher and poet (Guillermo Rothschuh Tablada), has entered mother earth,” were the main words of Dr. Cornelio Bravo, when offering condolences to the bereaved family, who from 10 am on Monday opened the doors of the house of the most emblematic bard in the central region to say goodbye.
“Nicaragua, America and humanity have lost a poet. The sky today is dressed in glory because a poet has won and to speak of the poet Rothschuh is not to enclose him in a book, when in reality he is more than a book and he was a man much loved by the people of Chontal,” said Dr. Cornelio, son of the famous character, Nelo Bravo.
The best legacy was for Chontales
Dr. Guillermo Rothschuh Villanueva, son of Master Guillermo, considers that his father’s greatest legacy was for Chontales. “He was always within his concerns, not only intellectual, educational and cultural, but also the realization of a diversity of works that I believe (I) are his best legacy”, he affirmed.
In 1946, teacher Guillermo became one of the founders of the National Institute of Chontales, accompanied by other characters of the time wishing to promote secondary education in our department and in 1952 he founded the Intellectual Clan, calling his former students to accompany in this cultural institution.
He was a favorite son of Juigalpa
The son of the poet recalls that in 1953 he was named director of the “Ramírez Goyena” Central National Institute, considered the most important in Nicaragua, and the five years he directed it are considered by the “Goyenistas” as the golden age and in 1962 he participated in the creation of the School of Educational Sciences.
Already in 1966, after the teacher and poet Guillermo Rothschuh Tablada, returned from France to carry out his higher studies, he created the Agricultural Lyceums, promoting, to complete this work, a reform in the country’s study plans and programs. Being the first three centers inaugurated in Juigalpa, Matagalpa and Rivas.
He received a series of distinctions in life, among them, beloved son of Juigalpa and before he died, he decided that his funeral honors would be without tributes and his friends would only express their affection to his family, “but that everything will be done within the family”.
The body of the poet was cremated and the family still has not made a decision whether his ashes are planted in the garden of his house or his children take a portion. At four in the afternoon this Monday the doors were closed and thus the funeral honors of the teacher and poet Guillermo were concluded.
They declared 3 days of municipal mourning
The mayor of Juigalpa, Professor Erwing de Castilla Urbina, together with the poet and president of the Intellectual Clan of Chontales, Holman Marín, read the Municipal Edict 02-2022, which declares three days of mourning and the flags must remain at half-staff from November 7 to 9 of the current year.
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For de Castilla Urbina, the loss of the teacher and poet Guillermo Rothschuh Tablada is immense and personally he publicly acknowledged “that Guillermo Rothschuh was not only my mentor for (me), but I consider him my father. That father that I never had and he was always with me in the most difficult moments of my professional life and in my personal life”.
By: United Voices
