Hernán Behn

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title: "Hernán Behn" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["20th-century-puerto-rican-businesspeople", "20th-century-american-businesspeople", "1880-births", "1933-deaths", "itt-inc.-people", "american-people-of-danish-descent", "puerto-rican-people-of-danish-descent", "american-people-of-french-descent", "puerto-rican-people-of-french-descent", "american-expatriates-in-france", "puerto-rican-expatriates-in-france"] description: "Puerto Rican businessman" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernán_Behn" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Puerto Rican businessman ::

Hernan Behn (February 19, 1880 Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands– October 7, 1933 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France co-founded the Puerto Rico Telephone Company which eventually spawned ITT. Behn, along with his brother Sosthenes built the Two Brothers Bridge —Puente Dos Hermanos in Spanish— in San Juan. The bridge links the districts of Condado and Old San Juan.

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References

1. "Hernán Behn y Sosthenes Behn".
2. Morales Cortés, Ramón. [http://www.vii.org/papers/puer.htm Telecommunications in Puerto Rico] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-09-30 (paper). New York, USA: ''Virtual Institute of Information''.)

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