About Orestes Araújo
Lived 1853 – 1915 (aged 61). Orestes Araújo was an Uruguayan writer, historian, journalist and teacher.
Orestes Araújo (Mahón, 1853 - Montevideo, 1915) was a Uruguayan lecturer, schoolteacher and historian.
Born in Menorca, he settled in Montevideo in 1870 and worked in the newspaper La Paz, established by José Pedro Varela. Araújo helped him and his brother Jacobo in the implementation of a school reform, task which he undertook until 1889.
He wrote several didactic and reference works: Diccionario Geográfico del Uruguay (1900) Historia de la Escuela Uruguaya (1911)
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Who was Orestes Araújo?
Uruguayan academic
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Orestes Araújo was born on 22 October 1853 in Maó, Spain.
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Orestes Araújo died on 31 August 1915 in Montevideo.
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Orestes Araújo was a writer, historian, journalist and teacher.
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Orestes Araújo was Uruguayan.
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