Salvador Debenedetti

Salvador Santiago Lorenzo Debenedetti (March 2, 1884 – September 30, 1930) was an Argentine archaeologist, anthropologist and educator.

He was involved in the restoration of Pucará de Tilcara, an ancient fortification in what today is Jujuy Province.

He was also the originator of Student's Day in Argentina, an informal holiday celebrated on September 21.

He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy and Letters in 1909, as succeeded his mentor as both curator of the Pucará de Tilcara ruins, and of the university's Museum of Ethnography.

[1] He was invited to join the International Congress of Americanists, as Ambrosetti had been, during the group's 1929 symposium in Paris.