Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar was a Colombian scholar, poet, journalist, philosopher, orator, philologist, lawyer and politician.
Miguel Antonio Caro was born in Bogotá on November 10, 1845, and he died in the same city on August 5, 1909.
His father José Eusebio Caro and Mariano Ospina Rodríguez were the founders of the Colombian Conservative Party. His father’s criticisms of President José Hilario López led to his exile to New York City.
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Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar was a Colombian scholar, poet, journalist, philosopher, orator, philologist, lawyer and politician.
Miguel Antonio Caro was born in Bogotá on November 10, 1845, and he died in the same city on August 5, 1909.
His father José Eusebio Caro and Mariano Ospina Rodríguez were the founders of the Colombian Conservative Party. His father’s criticisms of President José Hilario López led to his exile to New York City.
Caro did not attend college or University. Nevertheless, as autodidact, he was very well versed in economics, world history and literature, social science, jurisprudence, linguistics and philology. He was also well known as great orator, debater and poet. Also, as a scholar, he translated several of the works of Virgilio from Latin. He was appointed as Director of the National Library, elected as MP, and founder of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua.
Caro, as philosopher, scholar and orator played a decisive and important role in the preparation,...
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