Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
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Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna | |
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Senate | |
In office 1 June 1876 – 1 June 1885 | |
Constituency | Coquimbo and Santiago |
President of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
In office 1876–1886 | |
Preceded by | Position created |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Santiago, Chile | August 25, 1831
Died | January 25, 1886 Santa Rosa de Colmo, Chile | (aged 54)
Spouse | Victoria Subercaseaux |
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (August 25, 1831 – January 25, 1886) was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and
Biography
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was born in
Back in Chile, in 1856 Vicuña Mackenna graduated as a lawyer from the
Vicuña Mackenna's most important works are 'El sitio de Chillán' (1849), 'La agricultura aplicada a Chile' (published in London, 1853), 'Chili' (Paris, 1855), 'Tres años de viajes' (1856), 'Ostracismo de los Carrera' (1857), 'Historia de la revolución del Perú' (1860), 'Ostracismo de O'Higgins' (1860), 'Diego de Almagro' (1862), 'Historia de la Administración Montt' (1861/62), 'Vida de Don Diego Portales' (1861/62), 'Historia de Santiago' (1868), 'Historia de Chile' (1868), 'Historia de Valparaíso' (1868), 'La guerra a muerte' (1868), 'Francisco Moyen' (1868), and dozens of other novels, history books, and political essays, the most popular being 'El Santa Lucía', 'La unión Americana', 'El cambiazo', 'Seis años en el senado de Chile', and 'El 20 de Abril'.
Like his contemporary Bartolomé Mitre in Argentina, Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna represented the intellectual class of the South American landed elites. They initiated mainstream historiography in their countries, and selected and immortalised the national discourse that served those elites in envisioning a model of national values to be imitated by the middle and working classes.
See also
Selected bibliography
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- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1849). El sitio de Chillán (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Periodico La Tribuna.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1853). La agricultura aplicada a Chile (in Spanish). London, UK.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1855). Le Chili (in French). Paris, France: Imprimerie et Librairie D´Agriculture et D´Horticulture. p. 144.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1856). Tres años de viajes (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1857). El Ostracismo de los Carreras (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril. pp. 553.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1860). Historia de la revolución del Perú (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1860). El Ostracismo del Jeneral D. Bernardo O'Higgins (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. pp. 575.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1862). Historia de los Diez Años de la Administración de don Manuel Montt (in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Chilena. pp. 1, 785.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1867). Diez Meses de Misión a los Estados Unidos de Norte América Como Ajente Confidencial de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta de la Libertad. p. 850.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1868). La guerra a muerte: memoria sobre las últimas campañas de la Independencia de Chile (1819-1824) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Nacional. pp. 562.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1868). Francisco Moyen o lo que fue La Inquisición en América (in Spanish). Engl. transl. by J. W. Duffy, London, 1869. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Nacional. p. 174.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1869). Historia Crítica y Social de la Ciudad de Santiago Desde su Fundación Hasta Nuestros Días (1541-1868) (in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1869). Historia de Valparaíso (1536-1868) (in Spanish). Vol. I–XII. Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta Albión de Cox i Taylor.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1872). Miscelanea (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. pp. 398.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1873). Un Año en la Intendencia de Santiago (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. p. 874.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1874). La Verdadera Situación de la Ciudad de Santiago (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. p. 115.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1874). La Visita de la Provincia de Santiago (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. p. 264.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1876). El Viaje del señor Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna a las Provincias del Sur (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta de la Patria. p. 91.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1877). Ensayo Histórico sobre el Clima de Chile (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. pp. 490.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1878). Historia de la Jornada del 20 de Abril de 1851, una Batalla en las Calles de Santiago (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover. p. 667.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1879). Estudios i Catálogo Completo i Razonado de la Biblioteca Americana, Coleccionada por Gregorio Beeche (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Imprenta i Libreria del Mercurio. p. 802.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1879). Episodios Marítimos, Las Dos Esmeraldas (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover. p. 544.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1880). Guerra del Pacífico (in Spanish). Vol. I–IV. Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover. pp. 1, 216.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1881). La Edad del Oro en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. pp. 491.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1882). Vida del Capitán Jeneral de Chile Don Bernardo O´Higgins (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover. p. 982.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1882). El Libro de la Plata en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. p. 607.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1883). El Libro del Cobre i del Carbón de Piedra en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. p. 607.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1883). Juan Fernández, Historia Verdadera de la Isla de Robinson Crusoe (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover. pp. 834.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1885). A Través de Los Andes (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Gutemberg. p. 366.
- Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (1889). Diego de Almagro (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. pp. 122.
Sources
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
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- Figueroa, Pedro Pablo (1886). Apuntes históricos sobre la vida y las obras de don Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Victoria.
- Obituario de don Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (PDF). La Ilustración Española y Americana (in Spanish). Vol. XXXIII. Spain. 1886. pp. 130–132.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Murray, Edmundo. "Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna". Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
External links
- Works by or about Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna at Internet Archive
- Works by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)