El Colegio de Mexico is a public institution of university status, dedicated to research and higher education, founded on October 8, 1940 by the Federal Government, the Bank of Mexico, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Fondo de Cultura economic, with the purpose of organizing and conducting research in certain fields of social sciences and humanities; provide higher education to train professionals, researchers and academics;
To know the origins of El Colegio de Mexico is necessary to refer to the House of Spain in Mexico (1938-1940). Germ of El Colegio de Mexico, shelter Republican Spanish intellectuals, origin and achieving great academic works, renewal of Mexican culture in its own right occupies a prominent place in the scientific development of Mexico. In March 1939, President Lazaro Cardenas Alfonso Reyes named president of the House of Spain and of its board.
