Bartolomé Saraví (1797–1862) was an Argentine army officer who toke part in the Argentine War of Independence. He served as General Minister of
La Rioja Province, Argentina
La Rioja (), officially Province of La Rioja is a province of Argentina located in the west of the country. The landscape of the province consists of a series of arid to semi-arid mountain ranges and agricultural valleys in between. It is in one ...
during the government of
Vicente Mota in 1847.
Biography
He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Ramón Saraví and Margarita Melo, belonging to a distinguished Creole family. He did his elementary studies in
Colegio Nacional de Monserrat, and completed his tertiary studies at the
University of Córdoba. He served as a militia lieutenant in the Regimiento de Húsares de Buenos Aires, participating in some of the major skirmishes occurred towards the end of the War of Independence.
He also had an active participation in the Argentine civil wars serving in the ranks of
Unitarian Army, and later to the cause of
Argentine Confederation
The Argentine Confederation (Spanish: ''Confederación Argentina'') was the last predecessor state of modern Argentina; its name is still one of the official names of the country according to the Argentine Constitution, Article 35. It was the nam ...
.. In 1840 he was deposed from the post of Juez de paz of
Carmen de Areco by order of
Hilario Lagos due to disagreements with
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y López de Osornio (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confedera ...
. Years later in 1847 he was appointed to the post of Minister General of La Rioja by then-Governor Vicente Maza, a politician of
Federal leaning deposed from office in 1848.
In 1852 he joined the
Ejército Grande participating in the
Battle of Caseros
The Battle of Caseros (; ) was fought near the town of El Palomar, Argentina, on 3 February 1852, between forces of the Argentine Confederation, commanded by Juan Manuel de Rosas, and a coalition consisting of the Argentine provinces of Entre ...
against the troops of Juan Manuel de Rosas.
Family
Bartolomé Saraví was married to Simona Blanco, daughter of Ramón Blanco and Basilia Biaus, belonging to a family of landowners of Carmen de Areco. He and his wife were parents of Federico Saraví, married to Luisa Walker Serrano, the sister of
Abraham Walker, and Mariano Saraví, husband of Juana Hardy, daughter of Pilar Sosa and Tomás Hardy, an English immigrant.
His son Fermín Saravi, a Captain of the Argentine army, was married to Faustina Canavery, daughter of Joaquín Canavery and María Ana Bayá, belonging to a Creole family of Irish roots.
His father Ramón Saraví, was killed while defending the city against the British during the first
English Invasion of Buenos Aires.
References
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1797 births
1862 deaths
19th-century Argentine military personnel
Argentine Army officers
Politicians from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Spanish descent
Río de la Plata