Augusto Mijares

Augusto Mijares
Minister of Education of Venezuela
In office 1949–1950
President	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
Ambassador to Spain
In office 1950–1953
Succeeded by	Simón Becerra
Personal details
Born	(1897-11-12)12 November 1897 Villa de Cura, Aragua
Died	29 June 1979(1979-06-29) (aged 81) Caracas, Venezuela
Spouse	Matilde Felce Cottin
Profession	writer, historian, schoolteacher, lawyer
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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. 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 (in Spanish)
• Efemérides venezolanas. "Augusto Mijares". Retrieved 24 January 2010. (in Spanish)
• Fundación *José Guillermo Carrillo. "Augusto Mijares". Retrieved 24 January 2010. (in Spanish)
• Venezuela Virtual. "Personajes Ilustres: Augusto Mijares". Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010. (in Spanish)