Augusto Belin

Augusto Belin was born on the 14^th January 1854; he died on the 25^th September 1936. He was an argentine writer and a diplomat. He is the son of a printer called Julio Belin and Ana Faustina Sarmiento, who is also the daughter of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

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He was born in Chile he travelled with his maternal grandfather to Lima and Washington DC and he studied at the West Point Military Academy. He ended up in Paris in the year 1870 and fought there as a volunteer army.

Augusto Belin started his career as a collaborator at the XIXme Siècle on the matters of the country. When he came back to the country, Augusto Belin was employed by the National Senate to work as a translator of the Wilson Book Review Digest in the year 1877. He was given the responsibility of managing the BibliotecaNacional de Maestros, and it was there that he started an inventory, finding the total of 8,733 copies in the archive and the total of 39,152 in the deposit.

The next year, Augusto Belin became the editor of the El Nacional at that period under the direction of Domingo Faustina Sarmiento. He was also the director of the BibliotecaPública de San Juan as well as the Minister of Intervention in Catamarca in the year 1893.

Augusto Belin acted as the Consul of the country to different countries like Italy, Netherlands, Paraguay and France from the year 1906 to the year 1926.

Before he died, Augusto Belin was the commercial Attache in the delegation in Asuncion of the country.

Works

Ø  Unarepúblicamuerta, with an introduction by Lucio V. López

Ø  Un criollo en PaísesBajos

Ø  El joven Sarmiento