Augusto Mijares Explained

Augusto Mijares
Minister of Education of Venezuela
Term Start:	1949
Term End:	1950
President:	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
Title2:	Ambassador to Spain
Term Start2:	1950
Term End2:	1953
Successor2:	Simón Becerra
Profession:	writer, historian, schoolteacher, lawyer
Birth Date:	1897 11, df=yes
Birth Place:	Villa de Cura, Aragua
Death Place:	Caracas, Venezuela
Signature:	Augusto Mijares signature.jpg
Spouse:	Matilde Felce Cottin

Salvador Augusto Mijares Izquierdo (12 November 1897 – 29 June 1979), was a Venezuelan lawyer, historian, writer, educator and journalist. He is best known for El Libertador, his biography of Simón Bolívar.^[1] He was a member of the Venezuelan Academy of History (1947), the National Academy of Political Science (1960) and the Venezuelan Academy of Language (1971).

Bibliography

• 1927 La patria de los venezolanos en 1750
• 1938 La interpretación pesimista de la sociología hispanoamericana
• 1940 Hombres e ideas de América
• 1943 Educación
• 1955 La luz y el espejo
• 1961 Ideología de la Revolución Emancipadora
• 1963 Lo afirmativo venezolano
• 1964 El Libertador (biography of Simón Bolívar)
• 1967 La evolución política de Venezuela
• 1971 Longitud y latitud

Mijares's other works include biographies of Simón Rodríguez, Fermín Toro, Rafael María Baralt and José Rafael Revenga.

Further reading

• Simón Alberto Consalvi / Academia Nacional de la Historia (2003), Augusto Mijares: El pensador y su tiempo
• Web site: Augusto Mijares . Efemérides venezolanas. 24 January 2010.
• Web site: Augusto Mijares . Fundación *José Guillermo Carrillo. 24 January 2010.
• Web site: Personajes Ilustres: Augusto Mijares. Venezuela Virtual. 24 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100125220148/http://www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirtual/000/000/004/029.html. 25 January 2010. dead.

Notes and References

1. El Nacional (2002), Rostros y personajes de Venezuela