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Baldomero Sanín Cano (27 June 1861 in
Biography
1861 births 1957 deaths People from Rionegro Colombian male writers Colombian essayists Colombian journalists Linguists from Colombia Male journalists Male essayists Stalin Peace Prize recipients {{Colombia-writer-stub
Baldomero Sanín Cano (27 June 1861 in Rionegro
Rionegro () is a city and Municipalities of Colombia, municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia, located in the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. The official name of the city is "Ciudad Santiago de Arma de Rionegro". Rio Negro means "Black R ...
, Antioquia – 12 May 1957 in Bogotá
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) was a Colombian essayist, journalist, linguist
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, humanist and university professor.
He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England
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. He was a collaborator of the ''Hispania'' magazine and an editor of the newspaper ''La Nación
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Its motto is: "''La Nac ...
'' of Buenos Aires
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. He served as a minister in Argentina
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1934. He was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua
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. He was also Rector of the University of El Cauca in Popayan and also collaborator of El Tiempo in Bogota.
Works
*La administración Reyes 1904–1909 (1909) *Colombia hace sesenta años (1888) *An elementary Spanish grammar (1918) *La civilización manual y otros ensayos (1925) *Indagaciones e imágenes (1926) *Manual de historia de la literatura española (1926) *Crítica y arte (1932) *Divagaciones filológicas y apólogos literarios (1934) *Ensayos (1942) *De mi vida y otras vidas (1949) *El humanismo y el progreso del hombre (1955) *Pesadumbre de la belleza y otros cuentos y apólogos (1957) *Letras colombianas (1984).External links
*Biography
1861 births 1957 deaths People from Rionegro Colombian male writers Colombian essayists Colombian journalists Linguists from Colombia Male journalists Male essayists Stalin Peace Prize recipients {{Colombia-writer-stub