Sarmiento domingo faustino biography of christopher

  • The Life of Sarmiento.
  • Life in the Argentine Republic in the days of the tyrants; or, Civilization and barbarism.
  • Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was the seventh president of Argentina.

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    Life in the Argentine republic in the days of the tyrants;
    or, Civilization and barbarism.
    From the Spanish of Domingo F. Sarmiento ... With a biographical sketch of the author, by Mrs. Horace Mann.

    Description

    Language(s)
    English ; Spanish
    Published
    New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1868.
    Edition
    1st American from the 3d Spanish ed.
    Note
    First Spanish edition (Santiago de Chile, 1845) issued under title: Civilización i barbarie ...
    Physical Description
    xxxv, 400, [1] p. front. (port.) 19 cm.

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    Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

    The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

    Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino

     

    Born Feb. 14, 1811, in San Juan; died Sept. 11, 1888, in Asunción. Argentine state and public figure. Writer and radical-bourgeois historian.

    Sarmiento is the author of Travels Through Europe, Africa, and America (1849) and Memories of a Province (1850). His major work, Facundo (1850; original title Civilization and Barbarism: The Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga), is a literary, philosophical, and sociological essay that re-creates the life of the Argentine pampas. It depicts the life of the peoples of Latin America as a struggle between the forces of barbarism and civilization.

    Sarmiento was an advocate of secular education. Influenced by utopian socialism, he believed that education would lead to the equality of classes and social harmony. In his works he vigorously condemned the violence

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    ARA Presidente Sarmiento

    1897 sail training ship

    34°36′32.23″S58°21′56.31″W / 34.6089528°S 58.3656417°W / -34.6089528; -58.3656417

    Moored at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires

    History
    Argentina
    NamePresidente Sarmiento
    NamesakeDomingo Faustino Sarmiento
    BuilderLaird Brothers, Birkenhead, England
    Launched31 August 1897
    In service1897
    Out of service1961
    StatusMuseum ship in Buenos Aires, Argentina
    General characteristics
    TypeSail training ship
    Displacement2,750 tonnes
    Length81 m (266 ft)
    Beam13.11 m (43.0 ft)
    Draught5.64 m (18.5 ft)
    PropulsionSteam, 3-cylinder compound, 1,000 hp (750 kW), fartyg rig

    ARA Presidente Sarmiento fryst vatten a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. It fryst vatten considered to be the last intact cruising