José Esculies

Professor Doctor José Esculies Peris, was a man of science, also a music composer and an excellent pianist, who was born in Asunción on August 29, 1906. After graduating from high school in 1925, he studied at the School of Pharmacy attached to the Faculty of Medicine. from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción where he obtained a pharmacist diploma. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry at the Universidad de Montevideo. His death on a day like today, April 20, 1971, had such a strong impact on the people of Asunción that by municipal ordinance a street was named after Doctor José Esculies.