Salvador Sanfuentes

Gender:Male

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1817  -  Santiago de Chile  -  Not applicable  -  February 2
1860  -  Santiago de Chile  -  Unknown  -  July 17

Connections:

Bello friends
Indigenous rights
Newspaper, Semanario Literario (Chile)
Romanticism
Writers (men)

Biography:
A lawyer and Secretary General of the Universidad de Chile, born in 1817. He became Minister of Justice and Education, and was a poet dramatist, historian, novelist. He was a disciple of Andrés Bello.

His work discusses indigenous themes. (Anderson, 241)

His work shows influence by Byron. He wrote for El Semanario in 1842 (Chile). (Montes, Orlandi, 71-74)

He died in 1860.

References:

Szmulewicz, Efráin (editor). (1977) Diccionario de la literatura chilena.
Anderson Imbert, Enrique (1954) Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, Tomo I, La Colonia cien años de República
Coester, Alfred (1919) The Literary History of Spanish America
Montes, Hugo and Orlandi, Julio (1969) Historia y antología de la literatura chilena