Isidoro Araujo de Lira
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Isidoro Araujo de Lira | |
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| Commissioner | |
| In office 1848 and 1850 | |
| Founder and director of Diario de la Marina | |
| In office 1839 or 1844 – 1861 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 2, 1816 |
| Died | May 7, 1861 (aged 45) |
| Cause of death | Pistol duel |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Spain |
| Branch/service | Havana defense battalions |
| Years of service | 1850-1851 |
| Battles/wars | Lopez Expedition |
| Commanders | |
Don Isidoro Araujo de Lira was a Spanish journalist, writer and businessman who emigrated to the colony of Spanish Cuba and created the newspaper Diario de la Marina, what would become the longest-running newspaper in Cuba until its dissolution in 1960.
His grandsons include the journalist Isidoro Bugallal and the conservative politician Gabino Bugallal, President of the Spanish Council of Ministers briefly during the Restoration period.
Isidoro Araujo de Lira was born at 10 p.m. in the Galician town of Bouzas on January 2, 1816.[1] His father was José Araujo Troncoso y Lira, and his mother was Luisa Alcalde Mayor, both from what were called in that era "respectable families."[2]
In 1828, at the age of 12, his parents sent him to study the Humanities in Tuy, and later sent him to study philosophy at the Benedictine monastery in Samos, until his dispossession and the initial disentailments of the Isabelline period and the closure of smaller convents.[2][3][1]
In 1835, he relocated to Madrid to continue his education. Upon completion, he went to work in the Secretariat of State and the Government Office, (now the Ministry of the Interior). Soon after, he was assigned to the civil government in Salamanca. However, he was dismissed from this position.[2]