in the 1968 Cultural Congress of La Havana, where he was a judge in the Poetry Prize competition, as well as the 1970 Iberoamerican Community of Writers summit in Caracas, the Second Latin American Conference on Cultural Development and University Expansion in Mexico in 1972, and was part of the jury for the Quimantú (El Sol del Saber) Prize of Chile. In Venezuela, architect Carlos Celis Cepero created the León de Greiff Hispanic-American Prize of Poetry (Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía León de Greiff) which was first awarded on May 5, 1956 to the Venezuelan poet Juan Manuel González. Upon his return to private life in Colombia, he remained involved with international political work. In 1967 he was elected President of the Colombo-Czechoslovak Friendship Association, and in 1971 elected President of the Colombo-Cuban Friendship Association (his son Axel would follow his father's steps by being elected President of the Swedish–Cuban Association), and was even invited to the inauguration of Mexican President Luis Echeverría Álvarez in 1970, and in 1972 was invited to Costa Rica by its President José Figueres Ferrer. León de Greiff died at the age 80 in the early hours of Sunday July 11, 1976 in his home in Bogotá. Shortly after his death, the National University renamed its Central Auditorium in his honor. It is now a National Monument and home of the Bogota Philharmonic. In 2007 when a new public library-park was built, the city choose to name the León de Grieff Library in his honor and to promote culture and education in the city. Other works See also Jorge Isaacs José Eustasio Rivera References Alternative transliterated spelling from German to Spanish used: Häusler=Haeusler. Alternative transliterated spelling from Swedish to Spanish used: Carlos Fromholt Sigismundo de Greiff. See von. Further reading External links Audio of selected poems read by León de Greiff himself. English translation of León de Greiff's Canzonetta 1895 births 1976 deaths People from Medellín Leon Colombian people of German descent Colombian people of Spanish descent Colombian people of Swedish descent Colombian diplomats Colombian educators Colombian journalists Male journalists Colombian musicologists 20th-century Colombian poets Colombian male poets Knights of the Order of the Polar Star Modernismo University of Antioquia people Free University of Colombia alumni Burials at Central Cemetery of Bogotá 20th-century male writers 20th-century musicologists 20th-century journalists