Orestes Araújo ( Mahón, 1853 - Montevideo, 1915) was a Uruguayan lecturer,

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and

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. Born in

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, he settled in Montevideo in 1870 and worked in the newspaper ''La Paz'', established by

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. Araújo helped him and his brother

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in the implementation of a school reform, task which he undertook until 1889. He wrote several didactic and reference works:Books by Orestes Araújo
/ref> * ''Diccionario Geográfico del Uruguay'' (1900) * ''Historia de la Escuela Uruguaya'' (1911)

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1853 births 1915 deaths People from Mahón Uruguayan male writers 20th-century Uruguayan historians 19th-century Uruguayan educators 20th-century Uruguayan educators {{Uruguay-historian-stub