Ricardo Rojas was an Argentine

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...

 journalist and writer. He came from one of the most influential families of the Santiago del Estero Province

Santiago del Estero Province

Santiago del Estero is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. Neighbouring provinces are from the north clockwise Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.-History:...

; his father was Absalón Rojas, who was governor of the province. He moved to Buenos Aires to further his education, later becoming rector

Rector

The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...

 of the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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 from 1926 to 1930. He was also the director of the Institute of Petroleum (see Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales

Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales

Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales is an Argentine oil company.Founded in 1922 under President Hipólito Yrigoyen's administration, it was privatized in 1993 by Carlos Menem, and bought by the Spanish firm Repsol; the resulting merger in 1999 produced Repsol YPF...

).

Works

• Victoria del Hombre (1903)
• El país de la Selva (1907)
• Cartas de Europa (1908)
• El Alma Española (1908)
• Cosmópolis (1908)
• La Restauración Nacionalista (1909)
• Bibliografía de Sarmiento (1911)
• Los Lises del Blasón (1911)
• Blasón de Plata (1912)
• Archivo Capitular de Jujuy (1913/1944)
• La Universidad de Tucumán (1915)
• La Argentinidad (1916)
• Poesías de Cervantes (1916)
• Historia de la literatura argentina, 8 tomos.
• Los Arquetipos (1922)
• Poesías (1923)
• Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (1924)
• Discursos (1924)
• Eurindia (1924)
• La Guerra de las Naciones (1924)
• Las Provincias (1927)
• El Cristo Invisible (1927)
• Elelín (1929)
• Discursos del Rector (1930)
• Silabario de la Decoración Americana (1930)
• La Historia de las Escuelas (1930)
• Memoria del Rector (1930)
• El Radicalismo de Mañana (1932)
• El Santo de la Espada (1933)
• Cervantes (1935)
• Retablo Español (1938)
• Un Titán de los Andes (1939)
• Ollantay (1939)
• El Pensamiento vivo de Sarmiento (1941)
• Archipiélago (1942)
• La Salamanca (1943)
• El Profeta de la Pampa (1945)
• La Entrevista de Guayaquil (1947)
• La Victoria del Hombre y otros cantos (1951)
• Ensayo de crítica histórica sobre Episodios de la vida internacional Argentina (1951)
• Oda Latina (1954)