Early Life
He was born in Salzburg, Austria. Oriented in the classics (Latin and Greek) he did most of his high school at the Benedictine school of Kremsmunster in Austria. From 1926 until 1935, was a Member of SA, the NSDAP and SS (1931-1935). He attended classes at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne and at the University of Paris from 1937 to 1939, yet was ultimately persuaded to leave Europe on the eve of the Second World War. Gerardo emigrated to Colombia in 1939, where the rest of his life would be spent in research and participant observation in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, and also in Ethnoecology.
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