Miguel Ángel De Marco

Miguel Ángel De Marco was born in Rosario on 1 December 1939. He served in the Argentine Navy, reaching the rank of Comodoro.^[1]

He was an academic, and later president for three terms, of the National Academy of History of the Argentine Republic; he was also a member of the San Martin National Institute, and correspondent of the Royal Academy of History of Spain, the Royal Hispanic American Academy of Cadiz, the Portuguese Academy of History, the Academy of Marinha de Portugal and of almost all the national academies of Ibero-America.^[2] He was director of the Department of History and the Institute of Argentine and American History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, as well as a professor at the University of El Salvador, where he later became professor emeritus with a Doctorate in History.^[3]

Throughout his life, he produced a number of books related to Argentine history.^[4]

De Marco died on 6 April 2026, at the age of 86.^[5]

• In 2014 he received the Konex Award.^[6]
• On October 26, 2017, he was distinguished with the honorary hierarchy of Comodoro de Marina by the deputy head of the Argentine Navy, Vice Admiral Miguel Ángel Máscolo.^[7]