Rafael Heliodoro Valle : el Ateneo de Honduras y el Ateneo Americano en Washington

Abstract

This article is about the cultural work of the Honduran scholar Rafael Heliodoro Valle, and it focuses on two academic groups through which he sought to make inroads into the profession for his home country and the American Continent as a whole: The Ateneo of Honduras and the American Ateneo of Washington. Despite the nearly forty years separating the day each one was founded, both ateneos had in common the desire to consolidate the coordination of the indigenous and Western roots in the literature and history of the ill-named New World.