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Andrés Bello

Venezuelan-Chilean poet, humanist and diplomat (1781-1865)

For the asteroid, see 2282 Andrés Bello.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bello and the second or maternal family name is López.

Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López (Spanish pronunciation:[anˈdɾesˈβeʝo]; November 29, 1781 – October 15, 1865) was a Venezuelanhumanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture.[1] Bello is featured on the old 2,000 Venezuelan bolívar and the 20,000 Chilean peso notes.

In Caracas, where he was born, Andrés Bello was Simón Bolívar's teacher for a short period of time and participated in efforts that led to Venezuelan independence. As a diplomat for the new independent government that he helped establish, he went with Luis López Méndez and Simón Bolívar on their first diplomatic mission to London. He lived in London from 1810 to 1829.

In 1829, Bello went with his family to Chile. He was hire

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Andrés Bello y López

The Venezuelan humanist Andrés Bello y López (1781-1865) is generally considered to be the most complete intellectual of 19th-century Latin America.

Andrés Bello was born on Nov. 29, 1781, in Caracas into a middle-class Creole family. His early education was entrusted to Cristobal de Quesada, a Mercedarian friar, then reputedly the greatest Latinist in Venezuela, who instilled in him a great love for the Latin and Spanish classics and the Spanish-Italian school of the 19th century. They were to exercise a lifelong literary influence on him.

In 1797 he entered the University of Caracas, receiving a bachelor of arts degree in 1800. He then studied law and medicine there. To augment his income, he tutored his friends, the most outstanding of whom was Simón Bolívar, the future liberator of South America. Bello's financial situation, always precarious, apparently worsened, and he abandoned his studies in 1802 to enter government service.

In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Bello wrote numerous poems, several in imitation of Virgil and Horac

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Andrés Bello
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Iván Jaksic
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  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0080

  • Dunkerley, James. “Andrés Bello and the Challenges of Spanish American Liberalism.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 24 (2014): 105–125.

    DOI: 10.1017/S008044011400005X

    This concise essay brings together elements of Bello’s biography to develop a central point: his development as a scholar, politician, and statesman. It argues that on the basis of his experience in three countries, Bello was able to make a major contribution to 19th-century state-building through the adaptation of liberal thought to the newly independent nations of Spanish America.

  • Fundación la Casa de Bello, ed. Bello y Caracas. Caracas: La Casa de Bello, 1979.

    A collection of twenty essays covering a wide spectrum of Bello’s life and activities in Caracas (1781–1810), prior to departure to London. The biographical information about Bello is placed in the larger context of social, economic, and political developments du

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