Juan Zorrilla de San MartÃn
Juan Luis Zorrilla de San Martín ( born December 28, 1855 in Montevideo, † November 3, 1931 ) was a Uruguayan poet.
Zorilla de San Martín visited in 1865, about one and a half years after the death of his mother, on Veranslassung his father and his brother Alejandro, the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción jesuita de Santa Fe. In 1875, he continued a legal education in Chile. In November 1878 he founded the Catholic daily newspaper El Bien Público. He was married in first marriage since 1878 with Elvira Blanco. From this relationship, six children were born. Some years after the death of his deceased wife in 1887 he married her sister Concepción Blanco, the difference again in 1907 from the life. With her he had ten more children. He is the father of sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín. His daughter and thus Juan Zorrilla de San Martín's granddaughter is the actress China Zorrilla.
He holds a doctorate in law Zorilla de San Martín worked as a journalist and writer. Among the most important works of his poetic activity among the epic Tabaré, which was filmed in 1917. He also worked as a diplomat in Spain, France and the Holy See.
Works
Poetry
- Notas de un himno (1877 )
- La leyenda patria (1879 )
- Tabaré (1888 )
- La epopeya de Artigas (1910).
Essays
- Discurso de la Rabida (1892 )
- Resonancia del camino (1896 )
- Huerto cerrado (1900)
- Conferencias y Discursos (1905 ),
- Detalles de la Historia Rioplatense (1917 )
- El Sermon de la paz (1924 )
- El libro de Ruth (1928 )