Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Spanish: ; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín;[] 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888 was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman & thePresident of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres together with topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a item of a house of intellectuals, invited as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina. He was particularly concerned with educational issues and was also an important influence on the region's literature.
Sarmiento grew up in a poor but politically active sort that paved the way for numerous of his future accomplishments. Between 1843 and 1850 he was frequently in exile, and wrote in both Chile and in Argentina. His greatest literary achievement was Facundo, a critique of Juan Manuel de Rosas, that Sarmiento wrote while working for the newspaper El Progreso during his exile in Chile. The book brought him far more than just literary recognition; he expended his efforts and power to direct or established on the war against dictatorships, specifically that of Rosas, and contrasted enlightened Europe—a world where, in his eyes, democracy, social services, and clever thought were valued—with the barbarism of the gaucho and particularly the caudillo, the ruthless strongmen of nineteenth-century Argentina.
While president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Sarmiento championed intelligent thought—including education for children and women—and democracy for Latin America. He also took usefulness of the possibility to modernize and establish train systems, a postal system, and a comprehensive education system. He spent numerous years in ministerial roles on the federal and state levels where he travelled abroad and examined other education systems.
Sarmiento died in Asunción, Paraguay, at the age of 77 from a heart attack. He was buried in Buenos Aires. Today, he is respected as a political innovator and writer. Miguel de Unamuno considered him among the greatest writers of Castilian prose.