Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Argentinian politician and writer (1811-1888)
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine politician and writer who lived from 1811 to 1888 and played a significant role in his country's development during the 19th century. He is remembered for his influential ideas and writings that shaped Argentine culture and politics, though the specific details of his most important contributions would require further study to fully understand.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1811
- Died
- 1888
- Works
- 248
Top works
- Las escuelas: base de la prosperidad de la república en los Estados Unidos
- Comentarios de la Constitución de la Confederación argentina
- Recuerdos de provincia
- Sociedad Sericícola Americana
- Las ciento y una
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,671x
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina.
Sarmiento grew up in a poor but politically active family that paved the way for many of his future accomplishments. Between 1843 and 1850, he was frequently in exile, and wrote in both Chile and in Argentina. His most famous work was Facundo, a critique of Juan Manuel de Rosas, that Sarmiento wrote while working for the newspaper El Progreso during his exile in Chile. The book brought him far more than just literary recognition; he expended his efforts and energy on the war against dictatorships, specifically that of Rosas, and contrasted enlightened Europe—a world where, in his eyes, democracy, social services, and intelligent thought were valued—with the barbarism of the gaucho and especially the caudillo, the ruthless strongmen of 19th-century Argentina.
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