Florencio Harmodio Arosemena

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Florencio Harmodio Arosemena Guillén (17 September 1872 – 30 August 1945) was the 6th

At the early age of 11, he was sent to study in Germany by his father. Arosemena became an accomplished civil engineer who graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1895.

He spoke seven languages (Spanish, English, German, Turkish, French, Italian, and Portuguese) and was a lifelong friend of physicist Albert Einstein, with whom he had attended university in Germany. He worked with the German Government in the construction of various railroads in countries such as Portugal and Turkey. Later Cuba hired him for the construction of its Central Railroad.

He assisted in 1895 with the design and construction of the railroad line from Guayaquil to Quito - the most difficult railroad of the world to be built at the time, that was called "the nose of the devil", when Eloy Alfaro was president of Ecuador. Among his other notable contributions of architectural and engineering projects in Panama are; the Palace of Government, the National Institute, the National Theater and Panama city hall, the Puerto Armuelles Railroad and the plans of the Neighborhood of the Exposition that harbors among others monuments of the National Institute Gorgas.

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