Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín was born on 28 December 1855 in Montevideo; his mother died when he was a year and a half old. Educated by the Jesuits in Santa Fe, Argentina, he studied law in Chile and took his doctorate there in 1877. Back in Uruguay, he was a judge, founded a Catholic newspaper, taught literature at the university, sat in the Chamber in the late eighties, then represented Uruguay in Spain, in Portugal and at the Holy See. A patriotic poem recited in 1879 earned him the nickname of poet of the fatherland. He died in Montevideo on 3 November 1931.

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• PoetryTabaréJuan Zorrilla de San Martín · 1888not translated into EnglishLiterature