Diego Barros Arana
Diego Barros Arana ( born August 16, 1830 in Santiago de Chile, † November 4, 1907 ) was an important Chilean historian of the 19th century. He was also deputy rector of the Instituto Nacional and diplomat.
Life
Diego Barros Arana was born the sixth child of a wealthy merchant Antonio Barros Diego Fernández de Leiva and originating from the Argentine upper class Martina Arana Andonaegui. He attended high school of the monastery of San Agustínin his hometown and later the Instituto Nacional, where he learned Latin, grammar, philosophy, French and the Holy Scriptures. At the age of 19 he published in the newspaper El Mercurio de Valparaíso, the translation of a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas.
In 1855 he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad de Chile. However, he resigned his position two years it back on to go into politics. After 1857, he took over the editorship of the newspaper " El Pais " that stood in opposition to the government of Manuel Montt Torres. A year later, he had reason to go into exile. He traveled to Argentina, London, Seville and Paris. In 1861 he returned to Chile and was secretary of the Council of the Universidad de Chile. Two years later he was appointed by President José Joaquín Pérez rector of the Instituto Nacional. From 1867 to 1870 he was a member of San Fernando and 1886 by Putaendo.
On behalf of the President Federico Errazuriz Zañartu he led in 1875 in Buenos Aires negotiations for a solution to the border dispute over Patagonia, which would later lead, during the Salpeterkrieges, neutrality of Argentina and the border treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina. He was a member of the Bilateral Commission, which drew up the report for demarcation.
During the civil war of 1891 he turned against President José Manuel Balmaceda and therefore had to temporarily keep hidden in a monastery.
In 1892 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad de Chile, a year later as Rector of this University. In the last ten years of his life, since 1897, he worked primarily as a professor of history at the Instituto Nacional.
Works
Note: names are in modern spelling. At that time they used in Chile Ortografía de Andres Bello
- Estudios sobre históricos Vicente Benavides y las Campañas del sur: 1818-1822 ( 1850)
- El general Freire (1852 )
- Historia general de la Independencia de Chile (4 tomos entre 1854 y 1858) tomo I ( 1854)
- Tomo II ( 1855)
- Tomo III ( 1857)
- Tomo IV (1858 )
- Tomo I ( 1884)
- Tomo II ( 1884)
- Tomo III (1884 )
- Tomo IV (1885 )
- Tomo V ( 1885)
- Tomo VI (1886 )
- Tomo VII (1886 )
- Tomo VIII ( 1887)
- Tomo IX ( 1889)
- Tomo X ( 1889)
- Tomo XI ( 1890)
- Tomo XII ( 1893)
- Tomo XIII ( 1894)
- Tomo XIV ( 1897)
- Tomo XV (1897 )
- Tomo XVI (1902 )
- Tomo I ( 1905)
- Tomo II ( 1906)