José María Vergara y Vergara

José María Vergara y Vergara was born in Bogotá on 19 March 1831 into a family of notables. He did not attend university, turned to journalism and founded three newspapers in the capital in quick succession, one of which became the main organ of the literature of manners. He assembled a large library, wrote the first history of the literature of his country, and obtained from a Spanish academy permission to create one in the New World: he founded and directed that of his country. He died on 9 March 1872, at the age of forty.

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• NarrativeLas tres tazasJosé María Vergara y Vergara · 1863not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain