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En 1829 Bello llega a Chile; se quedará hasta el fin de sus días, y será entre
Santiago y Valparaíso que escribirá gran parte de toda su obra. En Santiago,
Andrés Bello inspira, organiza y funda la Universidad de Chile. Como legislador,
redacta el Código Civil de Chile, el mismo que servirá de base para varios otros
códigos civiles latinoamericanos. La actividad de Bello durante sus treinta y
tantos años en Chile es fecunda: periodista, poeta, filósofo, educador,
organizador y político. El 13 de julio de 1829, el presidente Francisco Antonio
Pinto nombra a Bello oficial mayor del Ministerio de Hacienda, con un sueldo de
2 mil pesos anuales. Pero ejercería en el ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores,
ocupando el cargo que correspondería hoy al de subsecretario. En 1830 se
encarga Andrés Bello de la redacción de las secciones extranjera y cultural del
recién fundado diario oficial “El araucano”. En 1832 se le otorga la nacionalidad
chilena. Ese mismo año integra la Junta de Educación, proponiendo los planes y
programas educativos de todos los colegios del país. En 1837 es elegido senador
de la República, y reelegido en dos períodos sucesivos, hasta el año anterior al de
su muerte, 1864. En 1840 se crea una comisión de parlamentarios para la
elaboración del Código Civil: Bello y Egaña fueron los senadores nombrados.
Este último muere en 1846. Bello continuó trabajando hasta completar la que fue
una de sus más grandes obras. En 1842 se fundó la Universidad de Chile, tras la
aprobación de su nueva ley orgánica. Bello fue designado rector, y reelegido
mientras vivió.
The life of Andrés Bello (1781-1865) saw three great periods of Latin American
history: he lived his first thirty years of life in the Spanish colony (Venezuela), then
followed all movements and independence victories from London, and finally He
knew about five decades of independent Latin American life. He was born in
Caracas and had an elite education and the old, fully universal: Latin, scholastic,
geography (he was a professor of this subject of Simón Bolívar). In 1796 Bello
entered the Seminary and University of Santa Rosa de Caracas. On June 14,
Although Caracas did not concentrate for the time, far from it, the cultural
resources or the official action of Spain, it was a city that drew the attention for its
activity and cultural level to any European who visited it. Bello stood out in the
Caracas gatherings with some poems, his writings in the Gazeta de Caracas, and
rising in 1810 to major officer. He was confirmed in that position by the Governing
Board that assumes on April 19 of that same year. In June he is added to the
mission sent to the British government, formed by Simón Bolívar and Luis López
America. When he left for London, Bello was already famous as a man of letters.
did not have stable work. He worked on transcribing the manuscripts of Jeremiah
Bentham, and gave private classes in French and Spanish. He was also institutor
Affairs. In May 1814, he married Mary Ann Boyland, 20, who gave him three
February 1824, with Elizabeth Antonia Dunn, also of 20 years, who would
accompany him until the end of his days and with whom he would have no less
than twelve children, three of them born in London, and the others in Chile.
In London Bello will live for 19 years, meeting the most representative men of
the Hispanic world of London: White White, Gallardo, Salvá, Egaña, Mendívil,
among which the first and most important of these contacts was his compatriot
Francisco de Miranda. Bello lived in his house on Grafton Street until 1812,
speaking countries [American Library (1823) and the American Repertory (1826-
27)], magazines that included research, creation, criticism and scientific and literary
dissemination on all class of subjects that could interest America; he himself is also
dedicated to criticism and poetry. It is imbued in London with new customs, ways of
thinking and doing politics, libraries and quantity of books. Decisive for his legal
London Bello matures his ideas and is preparing to collaborate in the cultural
structuring of many nations that had just seen the birth of their new and
be, grateful. What it was about according to what he often said, was to take
advantage of all the cultural and scientific progress of Europeans and the world in
general, so that Latin America did not have to go through the same sufferings and
delays that the Europeans went through to achieve it Latin America had to update
quickly, reach the European cultural and scientific level, and from there contribute
to humanity.
In 1829 Bello arrives in Chile; he will remain until the end of his days, and it will
be between Santiago and Valparaíso that he will write a great part of all his work.
In Santiago, Andrés Bello inspires, organizes and founds the University of Chile.
As a legislator, drafting the Civil Code of Chile, which will serve as the basis for
several other Latin American civil codes. Bello's activity during his thirty-odd years
On July 13, 1829, President Francisco Antonio Pinto appoints Bello senior official
of the Ministry of Finance, with a salary of 2 thousand pesos per year. But it would
exercise in the Ministry of Outer Relations, occupying the position that would
the writing of the foreign and cultural sections of the newly founded official
newspaper "El Araucano". In 1832 he was granted Chilean nationality. That same
year he joined the Board of Education, proposing the educational plans and
programs of all the schools in the country. In 1837 he was elected senator of the
Republic, and reelected in two successive periods, until the year before his death,
the Civil Code: Bello and Egaña were the appointed senators. The latter dies in
1846. Bello continued working until completing what was one of his greatest works.
In 1842 the University of Chile was founded, after the approval of its new organic