Liborio Zerda
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dr. Liborio Zerda |
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July 10, 1834 Bogotá, Republic of New Granada |
| Died | November 9, 1919 (aged 85) Bogotá,  Colombia
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| Residence | Bogotá |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Fields | Medicine, history |
| Institutions | Colegio del Rosario (1858-1918) |
| Education | Medicine |
| Alma mater | Universidad Central |
| Known for | El Dorado, numerals, chicha |
| Influences | Acosta, Uricoechea, Duquesne, Lubbock, De Mortillet, Broca |
| Influenced | Izquierdo |
Liborio Zerda (Bogotá, Republic of New Granada, 10 July 1834 (other sources state 1830 or 1833) - Bogotá, Colombia, 9 November 1919) was a Colombian physician and Muisca scholar. Zerda has been important in the natural sciences of the late 19th and early 20th century in Colombia, publishing many articles about various topics, from medicine to chemical analysis, radioactivity and the popular drink chicha.
Zerda was contemporaneous with other Muisca scholars, and influenced by them; Joaquín Acosta and Ezequiel Uricoechea. He analysed the work done by José Domingo Duquesne on the Muisca numerals and published in 1883 his major work El Dorado about the mythical El Dorado, that he situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of the new zipa, but in the Siecha Lakes in the Chingaza Natural National Park.
Liborio Zerda taught at the Colegio del Rosario in Bogotá for 60 years and died on November 9, 1919 in the Colombian capital.
Liborio Zerda was born on July 10, 1830, 1833 or 1834 in the capital of the then Republic of New Granada, Bogotá. He attended the Colegio de San Bartolomé, a strict school that prohibited their students to walk on the streets at night, enter houses with a bad reputation, playing games or read obscene books. His interest for natural sciences was born at the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, where Zerda, as student of Joaquín Acosta, took classes in chemistry, geology and mineralogy. Liborio Zerda studied Medicine at the Universidad Central in the capital, graduating in 1853. He became a medical practitioner in Bogotá right after finishing his studies and in 1854 gained his specialisation in surgery and military medicine.
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