Ricardo Rojas (16 September 1882, in Tucumán – 29 July 1957, in

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) was an Argentine journalist and writer. He came from one of the most influential families of the

Santiago del Estero Province Santiago del Estero (), also known simply as Santiago, is a province in the north of Argentina. Neighboring provinces, clockwise from the north, are Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán. History The indigenous inhabita ...

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

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of the

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

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)

External links

Biography of Ricardo RojasRicardo Rojas and the Emergence of Argentine Cultural Nationalism
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rojas, Ricardo Argentine male writers People from Tucumán Province 1882 births 1957 deaths Rectors of the University of Buenos Aires