Juan Cruz Varela
Juan Cruz Varela (born November 23, 1794 in Buenos Aires , † June 23, 1839 in Montevideo ) was an Argentine writer, journalist and politician.
In preparation for a theological career, Varela attended the Colegio Montserrat in Córdoba and studied at the Universidad de Córdoba until 1816 . His poem Elvira was published in 1817 . The following year he published a Canto on the victory of the Chilean independence movement in the Battle of Maipu , in 1820 an elegy on the death of General Manuel Belgrano . It wrote other poems, including the famous Triunfo de Ituzaingó in 1827 , and a Colección de Poesías Patrióticas in 1828, and the Poesías completas in 1831 . He also emerged as a dramatist with the tragedies Dido (1823), Argia (1824) and Idomeneo (1825).
Under Governor Martín Rodríguez , Varela became a member of the Province of Buenos Aires in 1821. He became a friend of the first Argentine President Bernardino Rivadavia and in 1826 secretary of the Congreso General de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata . In addition, Varela founded and ran several liberal newspapers in Buenos Aires in the 1820s, including El Pampero and El Mensajero Argentino (1825-1827), El Granizo and El Porteño (1827) and El Tiempo (1828-1829).
After Rivadavias was deposed, Varela went to Montevideo with his younger brother Florencio , where he published the opposition magazine against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas El Patriota .
Web links
- La Web de las Biografías - Varela, Juan Cruz (Spanish)
- Biografías y Vidas - Juan Cruz Varela (Spanish)
- Argentinidad - Biografías - Juan Cruz Varela (Spanish)
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SURNAME | Varela, Juan Cruz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine writer, journalist and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1794 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata |
DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1839 |
Place of death | Montevideo , Uruguay |