Eduardo de la Barra

Eduardo de la Barra Lastarria was born in Santiago on 9 February 1839. Educated at the English school in Valparaíso and then at the Instituto Nacional, he became a geographical engineer in 1860. A civil servant at the Ministry of Finance from 1864 to 1872, according to the dictionary Biografías y Vidas, he was then rector of the Valparaíso lycée, which today bears his name, and represented Chile in Uruguay. Opposed to the revolution of 1891, he went to Argentina and returned only in 1895. He died in Valparaíso on 9 April 1900.

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• PoetryRimas chilenasEduardo de la Barra · 1890not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain