Horacio González

Horacio González (1 February 1944 – 22 June 2021) was an Argentine teacher and essayist. Until December 2015, he was the director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic.

Horacio has Italian descent through his maternal grandfather, born in Recanati, Marche. He graduated in sociology at the University of Buenos Aires in 1970. He got the doctorate of social sciences at the Brazilian University of São Paulo in 1992. He was a university teacher since 1968, with academic tenure at the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of Rosario and the Facultad Libre de Rosario. He was part of the Carta Abierta group, and he was the director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic, for the period from 2005 to 2015.

González tested positive for COVID-19 on 19 May 2021, and was admitted to the Sanatorium Güemes in Buenos Aires on that day. He died of the disease on 22 June 2021.