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Juan María Gutiérrez
1809–1878
A leading voice in 19th-century Argentina, he moved easily between literature, politics, and scholarship. His work helped shape the country’s cultural life while also leaving behind poetry, criticism, and historical writing.
2 Audiobooks
Apuntes biograficos de escritores, oradores y hombres de estado de la Republica Argentina
by Juan María Gutiérrez
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
About the author
Born in Buenos Aires in 1809, Juan María Gutiérrez became one of the key intellectual figures of 19th-century Argentina. He was known not only as a writer and poet, but also as a jurist, surveyor, historian, and critic—someone equally at home in public life and in the world of ideas.
His writing ranged widely, including poetry, literary criticism, biography, and other scholarly work. He is often remembered as an important promoter of Argentine culture and as a major figure in the country’s liberal intellectual tradition.
Gutiérrez also took part in national politics after the fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas, showing how closely literature and civic life could be connected in his era. He died in Buenos Aires in 1878, leaving a reputation as one of the broadest and most influential literary minds of his generation.