Baldomero Sanín Cano
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Baldomero Sanín Cano was a Colombia
n essayist, journalist, linguist, humanist and university professor.
He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England
. He was a collaborator of the Hispania magazine and an editor of the newspaper La Nación
of Buenos Aires
. He served as a Minister in Argentina
in 1934. He was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua
. He was also Rector of the University of El Cauca in Popayan and also collaborator of El Tiempo in Bogota.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n essayist, journalist, linguist, humanist and university professor.
He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. He was a collaborator of the Hispania magazine and an editor of the newspaper La Nación
La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper. The country's leading conservative paper, the centrist Clarín is its main competitor. It is the only newspaper in Argentina still published in broadsheet format.-Overview:...
of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. He served as a Minister in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
in 1934. He was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua
Academia Colombiana de la Lengua
The Academia Colombiana de la Lengua is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Colombia...
. He was also Rector of the University of El Cauca in Popayan and also collaborator of El Tiempo in Bogota.
Works
- La administración Reyes 1904-1909 (1909)
- Colombia hace sesenta años (1888)
- An elementary Spanish grammar (1918)
- La civilización manual y otros ensayos (1925)
- Indagaciones e imágenes (1926)
- Manual de historia de la literatura española (1926)
- Crítica y arte (1932)
- Divagaciones filológicas y apólogos literarios (1934)
- Ensayos (1942)
- De mi vida y otras vidas (1949)
- El humanismo y el progreso del hombre (1955)
- Pesadumbre de la belleza y otros cuentos y apólogos (1957)
- Letras colombianas (1984).