Emilio Oribe

Emilio Oribe was born on 13 April 1893 in Melo, to a merchant father of Basque descent and a mother from a family of gauchos and caudillos. At sixteen, he defended the American Indian in the newspaper La Razón under the pseudonym Ismael Velarde. A doctor of medicine in 1919, he practised little, became scientific attaché of the Uruguayan legation in Belgium, then a professor of philosophy. Holder from 1938 of the chair of philosophy of art, he headed the faculty of humanities and twice presided over the National Academy of Letters. He died in Montevideo on 24 May 1975.

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• PoetryLa colina del pájaro rojoEmilio Oribe · 1925not translated into EnglishLiterature