Can anyone distinguish himself as a poet, jurist, philologist, and a beautiful person?

FAMILY
Andres was the first born child of Bartolome Bello and Ana Antonia Lopez. He was first married to Mary Ann Boyland, fathered three children and then lost his wife. In his second marriage to Elizabeth Antonia Dunn he had thirteen children.

A poet, legislator, educator, jurist, diplomat, philologist, and especially a humanist and creator, Andres Bello (beautiful in Spanish) was born in Caracas, Venezuela on November 29, 1781.

He was educated in his hometown and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from the Royal and Pontifical University of Caracas where he later studied Philosophy, Law and Medicine.

Restless as a young man, he joined Alexander von Humboldt in his travels around Venezuela. In addition to speaking Latin and Spanish, he learned English and French on his own. He started and then excelled in writing poetry. He was also a private tutor with Simon Bolivar as one of his students. He became interested in politics when the demand for freedom was heard among the people.

TRIVIA
The middle names of both wives coincide with the names of his mother.

In June 1810, the Government Board sent him on a mission to address the British Government. He was joined by Simon Bolivar and Luis Lopez Mendez. In London, he would consolidate his intellectual, diplomatic and political education for 19 years.

In 1829, Bello went to Chile where he was appointed as Chief Administrator of the Ministry of the Treasury. The following year, he started editing “El Araucano” the most influential newspaper of the time and became its Head Editor.

By 1831, he began private tutoring at home. He was then able to finish and publish his “Principios del Derecho de Gentes” (Principles of the Peoples’ Law) that over time became “Principios de Derecho International” (Principles of International Law).

Those who do not bridle their passions are dragged down to terrible falls.

In 1832, Congress made him a Chilean citizen and he then became a member of the Education Board.

In 1837, he was elected Senator and joined the group in charge of writing the “Civil Code”. Virtually alone, in 1840 he started his masterpiece, passed in 1855 and used as a model by nearly every legislation in the Americas.

In 1842, he founded the University of Chile becoming its Dean for the rest of his life.

THE POET
His place in the Hispanic Parnassus is assured by “Silvas Americanas” (American Jungles), two beautiful poems depicting the majesty of Latin American landscape.

When he was about 70 years old, he was the Dean of the University, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Senator, editor of “El Araucano”, he wrote the Civil Code, and still had the time to write and publish books about the law, philology and poetry in a beautiful neoclassic style.

In 1847, he published the work known for over a century among all students in elementary and secondary schools in Hispanic America and all Spanish students, his “Grammar of the Spanish Language”, a basic book to preserve the integrity of Spanish in the Americas.

Andres Bello, a citizen of Hispanic America, was an energetic promoter of a project of greatness through education and the law, for the countries recently granted their freedom.

Andres Bello, an example of the best of the latin spirit.