Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

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Juan Luis Zorrilla de San Martín around 1890
Statue in Montevideo

Juan Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (born December 28, 1855 in Montevideo , † November 3, 1931 ibid) was a Uruguayan poet.

Zorilla de San Martín attended the Colegio jesuita de la Inmaculada Concepción de Santa Fe together with his brother Alejandro from 1865, around a year and a half after the death of his mother, at the instigation of his father . In 1875 he continued his law studies in Chile. In November 1878 he founded the Catholic daily El Bien Público . He was married to Elvira Blanco in his first marriage since 1878. This relationship resulted in six children. A few years after the death of his wife, who died in 1887, he married her sister Concepción Blanco, who in turn passed away in 1907. He had ten more children with her. He is the father of the sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín . His daughter and thus Juan Zorrilla de San Martín's granddaughter is the actress China Zorrilla .

Zorilla de San Martín, who has a doctorate in law , worked as a journalist and writer. The epic Tabaré , which was made into a film in 1917 , is one of the most important works of his poetic activity . He also worked as a diplomat in Spain, France and the Holy See.

Works

Poems

  • Notas de un himno (1877)
  • La leyenda patria (1879)
  • Tabaré (1888)
  • La epopeya de Artigas (1910).

Essays

  • Discurso de la Rábida (1892)
  • Resonancia del camino (1896)
  • Huerto cerrado (1900)
  • Conferencias y discursos (1905),
  • Details de la Historia Rioplatense (1917)
  • The sermon de la paz (1924)
  • El libro de Ruth (1928)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (Spanish), accessed January 12, 2014
  2. ↑ Biography (in Spanish) ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 12, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com
personal data
SURNAME Zorrilla de San Martín, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zorrilla de San Martín, Juan Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1931
Place of death Montevideo