Alejandro Magariños Cervantes
Uruguayan writer and lawyer (1825–1893)
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Alejandro Magariños Cervantes (1825 – 1893) was an Uruguayan writer and lawyer. He was Minister of Finance in 1869.
Biography
Cervantes was born in 1825, in Montevideo. His father, Dom Francisco de Borja Roman Magariños de Cerrato, was 30 and his mother, Maria de Los Angeles Cervantes, was 36.[1]
He went to Spain, receiving his Juris Doctor, and returned to Uruguay in 1855. He worked as a journalist for El Mercurio de Valparaíso and The Constitutional .
He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Luisa Rocca Maradona. He died on 17 March 1893, in Rocha, Uruguay, at the age of 67, and was buried in Cementerio, Jiménez, Durazno, Uruguay.[2]
Bibliography
- Memories of a good man (1849)
- Caramurú. Life on a whim (1850)
- Columbus and the New World (1850)
- There is no evil that for good does not come (1852)
- Celiar (1852)
