Rafael María Baralt

The Most Excellent Rafael María Baralt
Born	Rafael María Baralt y Pérez (1810-07-03)3 July 1810 Maracaibo, Viceroyalty of New Granada
Died	4 January 1860(1860-01-04) (aged 49) Madrid, Spain
Seat R of the Real Academia Española
In office 27 November 1853 – 4 January 1860
Preceded by	Juan Donoso Cortés
Succeeded by	Tomás Rodríguez Rubí [es]

Rafael María Baralt y Pérez (3 July 1810 - 4 January 1860) was a Venezuelan diplomat and one of the country's most famed writers, philologists, and historians. He was the first Latin American to occupy a chair at the Real Academia Española.

Life

Born in Maracaibo on 3 July 1810, he was the son of Miguel Antonio Baralt, who helped build the Baralt Theater in Maracaibo, and Ana Francisca Pérez, who was Dominican.

Baralt was elected to seat R of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 27 November 1853.^[1]

He suffered an untimely death in Madrid on 4 January 1860 due to the stresses and aggravations suffered during services rendered to his beloved country of birth. He is buried in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

Books

• Resumen de la Historia de Venezuela (1840)
• Adiós a la Patria (1842).

References

External links

• Works by or about Rafael María Baralt at Internet Archive

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