Diego Barros Arana
Diego Barros Arana (born August 16, 1830 in Santiago de Chile , † November 4, 1907 there ) was an important Chilean historian of the 19th century. He was also a member of parliament, rector of the Instituto Nacional and diplomat.
Life
Diego Barros Arana was born as the sixth child of the wealthy businessman Diego Antonio Barros Fernández de Leiva and Martina Arana Andonaegui, who came from the Argentine upper class. He attended the high school of the San Agustín Monastery in his hometown and later the Instituto Nacional, where he studied Latin, grammar, philosophy, French and the Holy Scriptures. At the age of 19 he published the translation of a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas in the newspaper El Mercurio de Valparaíso .
In 1855 he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad de Chile . But he gave up this position two years later to enter politics. Because in 1857 he took over the editing of the newspaper "El Pais", which was in opposition to the government of Manuel Montt Torres . A year later he had to go into exile because of this. He traveled to Argentina, London , Seville and Paris . In 1861 he returned to Chile and became Secretary of the Council of the Universidad de Chile. Two years later he was appointed Rector of the Instituto Nacional by José Joaquín Pérez . From 1867 to 1870 he was a member of Parliament for San Fernando and in 1886 for Putaendo .
On behalf of President Federico Errázuriz Zañartu , he led the negotiations in Buenos Aires in 1875 for a solution to the border dispute over Patagonia , which later, during the Saltpeter War, would lead to the neutrality of Argentina and the border treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina . He was a member of the bilateral commission that prepared the report on the demarcation of the border.
During the civil war of 1891 he turned against President José Manuel Balmaceda and therefore had to stay hidden in a monastery for a time.
In 1892 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad de Chile, and a year later he was appointed Rector of that university. In the last ten years of his life, since 1897, he worked primarily as a professor of history at the Instituto Nacional.
Works
Note: Names are in modern spelling. At that time, the Reformed orthography according to Andrés Bello was used in Chile .
- Estudios históricos sobre Vicente Benavides y las campañas del sur: 1818-1822 (1850)
- El general Freire (1852)
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Historia general de la independencia de Chile (4 tomos entre 1854 y 1858)
- tomo I (1854)
- tomo II (1855)
- tomo III (1857)
- tomo IV (1858)
- Las campañas de Chiloé: (1820-1826) (1856)
- Vida y viajes de Hernando de Magallanes (1864)
- Compendio elemental de historia de America (1865)
- Elementos de geografía física (1871)
- Manual de composición literaria (1871)
- Riquezas de los antiguos jesuitas de Chile (1872)
- Proceso de Pedro de Valdivia y otros documentos inéditos concernientes a este conquistador (1873)
- Mi destitución: apuntes para la historia del Instituto Nacional (1873)
- Rasgos biográficos de Don Melchor de Santiago (1883)
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Historia General de Chile (16 volúmenes entre 1884 y 1902)
- Tomo I (1884)
- Tomo II (1884)
- Tomo III (1884)
- Tomo IV (1885)
- Tomo V (1885)
- Tomo VI (1886)
- Tomo VII (1886)
- Tomo VIII (1887)
- Tomo IX (1889)
- Tomo X (1889)
- Tomo XI (1890)
- Tomo XII (1893)
- Tomo XIII (1894)
- Tomo XIV (1897)
- Tomo XV (1897)
- Tomo XVI (1902)
- Elementos de literatura: retórica y poética (1886)
- Compendio de historia moderna (1888)
- Exploraciones geográficas hidrográficas de José Moraleda y Montero precedidas de una introducción (1888)
- Necrología de D. Juan G. Courcelle Seneuil (1892)
- Plan de estudios y programas de instrucción secundaria aprobados por el Consejo de Instrucción Pública para los liceos del Estado (1893)
- La cuestión de límites entre Chile y la República Argentina: los tratados vigentes, las actas de los peritos, actas sobre el arbitraje, mapa de las dos líneas limítrofes (1895)
- El doctor don Rodolfo Amando Philippi: su vida y sus obras (1904)
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Un decenio de la historia de Chile: (1841-1851)
- Tomo I (1905)
- Tomo II (1906)
- Estudios histórico-bibliográficos (5 volúmenes entre 1909-1911)
- Don José Francisco Vergara: bosquejos biográficos a través de su labor parlamentaria su muerte y apoteosis (publicada en 1919)
- La guerra del pacifico 1879-1880 (2 volúmenes) (Download Vol.1 and Vol.II )
Footnotes
- ↑ Misael Camus Ibacache: La Iglesia de Chile, siglos XVII y XVIII según Diego Barros Arana . In: Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia en Chile . ISSN 0716-1662 . Jg. 7 (1989), pp. 129-149, here p. 130.
- ↑ Misael Camus Ibacache: La Iglesia de Chile, siglos XVII y XVIII según Diego Barros Arana . In: Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia en Chile . ISSN 0716-1662 . Jg. 7 (1989), pp. 129-149, here p. 131.
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Barros Arana, Diego |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean historian and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1830 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1907 |
Place of death | Santiago de Chile |