Román Mayorga Rivas (1862 – 28 December 1925) was a Nicaraguan journalist and poet. He is considered the founder of modern journalism in El Salvador.
Biography
Mayorga Rivas was born in 1862 in
León, Nicaragua
León () is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. Founded by the Spanish as Santiago de los Caballeros de León, it is the capital and largest city of León Department. , the municipality of León has an estimated population of 2 ...
. Mayorga Rivas was the son of the politician
Cleto Mayorga, and the grandson of the Nicaraguan President
Patricio Rivas
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The Spanish name is pronounced with the stress on the same first i as Portuguese, but an accent is not needed because this follows normal rul ...
.
He was a childhood friend of
Rubén Darío and
José Martí. He moved to the city of
San Salvador, El Salvador at the age of twelve and studied at the school of Hildebrando Martí and Anselmo Valdés. In 1876, he founded the newspaper ''El cometa'', and he later founded ''Diario del cometa'' (1878) and ''El estudiante''. In late 1879 he returned to Nicaragua to participate in intellectual life of his hometown, León.
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Between 1884 and 1886, Mayorga Rivas published his first three-volume anthology, ''Guirnalda Salvadoreña'', which collected biographical information and the works of Salvadoran poets. During this period, he also founded the newspaper ''El independiente'' in Granada, Nicaragua, the city where he also was married.][ After returning to El Salvador, he established the newspaper ''Diario del Salvador'' (1895–1932), one of the most important newspapers in Central Americal and the most modern of that era—and the newspaper for which a duplex printer was first brought to El Salvador. In his journalism, Mayorga Rivas collaborated with many notable writers, including ]Francisco Gavidia
Francisco Antonio Gavidia Guandique (1863 in San Miguel - 24 September 1955 in San Salvador) was a prominent Salvadoran writer, historian, politician, speaker, translator, educator and journalist. His poetry evolved from romanticism to a refl ...
, David J. Guzmán, Porfirio Barba Jacob
Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer.
Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora B ...
(known as Ricardo Arenales), and José María Peralta Lagos
José María Peralta Lagos (25 July 1873 – 22 July 1944), was a Salvadoran writer, military engineer, and politician. He wrote under the pseudonym T.P. Mechín.
Biography
Peralta Lagos was born on 25 July 1873 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador ...
.[ He also translated from English, Italian, Portuguese, and French. He became a member of the ]Academia Salvadoreña de la Lengua The Academia Salvadoreña de la Lengua (Spanish for ''Salvadoran Academy of Language'') is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in El Salvador.
It was founded in San Salvador on October 19, 1876. It is a membe ...
in 1915, and that year he also published his only book of poetry, ''Viejo y nuevo''.
As a public official, Mayorga Rivas headed the ''Oficina Central de Estadística'' in El Salvador. He also served as Secretary of the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington D.C., Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs and Public Instruction in Nicaragua, and El Salvador's envoy to the Panamerican Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mayorga Rivas died on 28 December 1925 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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External links
Guirnalda Salvadoreña
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1862 births
1925 deaths
People from León, Nicaragua
Nicaraguan people of Spanish descent
Nicaraguan emigrants to El Salvador
Salvadoran journalists
Male journalists
Nicaraguan journalists
Salvadoran poets
Male poets
Salvadoran male writers
Nicaraguan male poets
19th-century Nicaraguan poets
19th-century Salvadoran people
19th-century Salvadoran writers
20th-century Salvadoran writers
20th-century Nicaraguan poets