Augusto Mijares Explained
| Augusto Mijares |
| Minister of Education of Venezuela |
| Term Start: | 1949 |
| Term End: | 1950 |
| President: | Carlos Delgado Chalbaud |
| Title2: | Ambassador to Spain |
| Term Start2: | 1950 |
| Term End2: | 1953 |
| Successor2: | Simón Becerra |
| Profession: | writer, historian, schoolteacher, lawyer |
| Birth Date: | 1897 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Villa de Cura, Aragua |
| Death Place: | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Signature: | Augusto Mijares signature.jpg |
| Spouse: | Matilde Felce Cottin |
Salvador Augusto Mijares Izquierdo (12 November 1897 – 29 June 1979), was a Venezuelan lawyer, historian, writer, educator and journalist. He is best known for El Libertador, his biography of Simón Bolívar.[1] He was a member of the Venezuelan Academy of History (1947), the National Academy of Political Science (1960) and the Venezuelan Academy of Language (1971).
Bibliography
- 1927 La patria de los venezolanos en 1750
- 1938 La interpretación pesimista de la sociología hispanoamericana
- 1940 Hombres e ideas de América
- 1943 Educación
- 1955 La luz y el espejo
- 1961 Ideología de la Revolución Emancipadora
- 1963 Lo afirmativo venezolano
- 1964 El Libertador (biography of Simón Bolívar)
- 1967 La evolución política de Venezuela
- 1971 Longitud y latitud
Mijares's other works include biographies of Simón Rodríguez, Fermín Toro, Rafael María Baralt and José Rafael Revenga.
Further reading
- Simón Alberto Consalvi / Academia Nacional de la Historia (2003), Augusto Mijares: El pensador y su tiempo
- Web site: Augusto Mijares . Efemérides venezolanas. 24 January 2010.
- Web site: Augusto Mijares . Fundación *José Guillermo Carrillo. 24 January 2010.
- Web site: Personajes Ilustres: Augusto Mijares. Venezuela Virtual. 24 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100125220148/http://www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirtual/000/000/004/029.html. 25 January 2010. dead.
Notes and References
- El Nacional (2002), Rostros y personajes de Venezuela
