Baldomero Sanín Cano
Illustration — Caricature of Sanín Cani Baldomero Sanín Cano (27 June 1861 in Rionegro, Antioquia – 12 May 1957 in Bogotá) was a Colombian essayist, journalist, linguist, humanist and university professor. He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England. He was a collaborator of the Hispania magazine and an editor of the newspaper La Nación of Buenos Aires.
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Baldomero Sanín Cano

Francisco Sancha · (1920-10-08). " Varios españoles en la "Casa de España", en Londres ". Nuevo Mundo. ISSN 1699-8677. · Public domain
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- 1861 · Rio negro.
- Died
- 1957 · Bogotá.
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- Colombia
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- linguist · writer · journalist · sociologist · diplomat · politician · essayist · university teacher
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- Spanish
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Illustration — Caricature of Sanín Cani Baldomero Sanín Cano (27 June 1861 in Rionegro, Antioquia – 12 May 1957 in Bogotá) was a Colombian essayist, journalist, linguist, humanist and university professor. He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England. He was a collaborator of the Hispania magazine and an editor of the newspaper La Nación of Buenos Aires.
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He served as a minister in Argentina 1934. He was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua. He was also Rector of the University of El Cauca in Popayan and also collaborator of El Tiempo in Bogota.
• La administración Reyes 1904–1909 (1909) • Colombia hace sesenta años (1888) • An elementary Spanish grammar (1918) • La civilización manual y otros ensayos (1925) • Indagaciones e imágenes (1926) • Manual de historia de la literatura española (1926) • Crítica y arte (1932) • Divagaciones filológicas y apólogos literarios (1934) • Ensayos (1942) • De mi vida y otras vidas (1949) • El humanismo y el progreso del hombre (1955) • Pesadumbre de la belleza y otros cuentos y apólogos (1957) • Letras colombianas (1984).

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Francisco Sancha · (1920-10-08). " Varios españoles en la "Casa de España", en Londres ". Nuevo Mundo. ISSN 1699-8677.

Photo of Colombian painter Efraim Martinez (1898-1956), and poet Guillermo Valencia (1873-1943) and Baldomero Sanin Cano (1861-1957)
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