biography
pronunciation:
[bayoh]
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| lived:
| (1781–1865)
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| biography:
| Venezuelan writer and polymath, born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied in Caracas, then lived in London (1810–29), before finally settling in Chile, where he became a senior public servant, senator, and first rector of the University (1843). The most remarkable Latin-American intellectual of the 19th-c, his writings embrace language, law, education, history, philosophy, poetry, drama, and science. |
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