Mariano Boedo

Mariano Boedo

Mariano Boedo , actually Mariano Joaquín de Boedo y de Aguirre (born July 25, 1782 in Salta , † April 9, 1819 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine lawyer and politician.

Life

Mariano Boedo was the son of the Galician immigrant Manuel Antonio de Boedo y García and his wife María Magdalena de Aguirre y de Aguirre-Calvo de Mendoza. One of his maternal ancestors was the conquistador Francisco de Aguirre de Meneses .

Boedo completed his school days with private tutors and then attended the Loreto Seminar at the University of Córdoba to study law. He later switched to the same subject at the Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia San Francisco Xavier de Chunquisaca (USFX) in Sucre ( Bolivia ).

After successfully completing his degree, Boedo went back to his homeland and got a position as a lawyer at the Court of Justice of Buenos Aires. There he made the acquaintance of Mariano Moreno, among others . Together with him he was enthusiastic about the independence struggles in his country and supported them as much as possible. In 1810 Boedo took part in the May Revolution in the former viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and fought under General Martín Miguel de Güemes for the independence of his fatherland .

In 1813 Boedo was appointed to the Cabildo of his hometown and was responsible for the administration of the province of Salta at the declared request of General Manuel Belgrano . As a member of parliament, Boedo represented the province of Salta at the Congress of Tucumán in 1816 and there he was also elected vice-president. Two years later, Boedo resigned all his offices due to illness and settled in Buenos Aires. There he died on April 9, 1819 and was buried in the Basilica of St. Francis .

Honors

• Boedo , a district of Buenos Aires was named in his honor.
• The Grupo Boedo , an association of artists, bears his name.

literature

• Edberto Oscar Acevedo: La independencia de Argentina . Ed. Mapfre, Madrid 1992, ISBN 84-7100-206-X .
• Sandra Carreras: A Little History of Argentina . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-46147-1 .
• Vicente Osvaldo Cutolo: Nuevo diccionario biográfico Argentino 1750-1930, Volume 1: A-B . Ed. Elde, Buenos Aires 1968.
• Felipe Pigna: 1810. La otra historia de nuestra revolución fundadora . Ed. Planeta, Buenos Aires 2010. ISBN 978-950ß-49-2288-9.

Individual representations

1. ↑ also called Universidad Francisco Xavier .