Carlos Tünnerman

Carlos Tünnerman Bernheim is a Nicaraguan lawyer, diplomat, government official and educator. He is a former Minister of Education in Nicaragua, serving during the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) government from 1979 to 1984. He next became Nicaragua’s ambassador to the United States and then to the Organization of American States (OAS), from 1984 to 1988.[1]

Tünnerman in 2016

Tünnerman’s father had been head of the Nicaraguan Central Bank.[2] A lawyer by training, Tünnerman defended Tomás Borge after the 1956 assassination of President Anastasio Somoza Garcia.[2] From 1964 to 1974, Tünnerman was rector of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua.[2] In 1977, he was a member of the Group of Twelve establishment figures in Nicaragua who signed a letter of support for the Sandinistas, helping legitimize the movement.[2]

Tünnerman was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in education, in 1973 and 1989.[3]

Books
  • Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos (1976). La investigación en la universidad latinoamericana (in Spanish). Ediciones del Consejo Nacional de Educación Superior, Secretariado General Permanente.
  • Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos (1991). Historia de la universidad en América Latina: de la Epoca Colonial a la Reforma de Córdoba (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana. ISBN 978-9977-30-167-9.
  • Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos (1997). La paideia en Ruben Darío: una aproximación (in Spanish). Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
  • Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos (2008). Noventa años de la reforma universitaria de Córdoba (1918-2008) (in Spanish). Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina: CLACSO. ISBN 978-1-4492-0488-4. Retrieved 21 December 2020.

References
  1. "La Universidad Pública en el México de Hoy". www.ses.unam.mx. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  2. Affairs, United States Department of State Bureau of Public (1988). Nicaraguan Biographies: A Resource Book. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs. p. 32.
  3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim". Retrieved 2020-12-16.
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