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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1811–1888
A self-taught schoolteacher who became president of Argentina, he wrote with unusual force about education, politics, and the future of his country. His life moved between classrooms, newspapers, exile, and public office, giving his work both urgency and range.
4 Audiobooks
Facundo
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Argentina, Legend and History
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio) Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre
Estados Unidos
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Educación común en el Estado de Buenos-Aires
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
About the author
Born in San Juan in 1811, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento rose from a modest background to become one of the most influential public figures in 19th-century Argentina. He worked as a teacher, journalist, writer, and politician, and his belief in public education shaped much of his career.
Years of political conflict pushed him into exile in Chile, where he wrote extensively and sharpened the ideas that would make him famous. His best-known book, Facundo, mixed biography, history, and political argument, and remains one of the central works of Argentine literature.
Sarmiento served as president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He is especially remembered for promoting schools, teacher training, libraries, and broader access to learning, which is why he is often linked with the expansion of national education in Argentina. He died in 1888 in Asunción, Paraguay.