Vicente Fidel López (April 24, 1815 in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
– August 30, 1903) was an
Argentine historian, lawyer and politician. He was the son of writer and politician
Vicente López y Planes
Alejandro Vicente López y Planes (May 3, 1785 – October 10, 1856) was an Argentine writer and politician who acted as interim President of Argentina from July 7 to August 18, 1827. He also wrote the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthe ...
.
Biography
He studied at the school of Moral Sciences with Diego Alcorta, and got a degree as lawyer in 1837. He was a founding member of the "Sociedad de estudios Históricos y Sociales" (the Society of Social and Historical Studies), the "Salón Literario" (Literary Salon) and the "Asociación de Mayo" (May Association). From 1840 to 1852 he stayed in
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
, as he opposed the government of
Juan Manuel de Rosas. During this time, he worked with
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the second President of Argentina. His writing s ...
, with whom he founded a private school and published a book of Chilean History in 1845.
He returned to Argentina after the defeat of Rosas, being a minister of his father. In this time he published 2 historical novels, "La novia del hereje" and "La loca de la guardia". He left again to Montevideo publishing another pair of books. He was teacher of law, and discussed with Dalmasio Vélez Sársfield about the content and function of the civil code. Between 1876 and 1879 he was a national deputy, and
minister of economy in 1891 under the presidency of
Carlos Pellegrini. He was an active Freemason.
He contended with
Bartolomé Mitre about the book
Historia de Belgrano y de la Independencia Argentina, and later wrote his most important work,
Historia de la República Argentina, in 10 issues (1883–1893). He died in his home city in 1903.
Works
* ''Revista del Río de la Plata'' (1871–1877, with
Juan María Gutierrez
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
)
* ''Historia de la república Argentina'' (1883–1893)
* ''La Gran Semana de mayo'' (Edición de Homenaje a la Revolución de Mayo, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, Impreso en Argentina, 3ª edición, Año 1964)
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1815 births
1903 deaths
Lawyers from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Spanish descent
National Autonomist Party politicians
Argentine Ministers of Finance
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province
Rectors of the University of Buenos Aires
Argentine Freemasons
19th-century Argentine lawyers
19th-century Argentine historians
Argentine male writers
Argentine classical liberals
Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery
Male non-fiction writers