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Belzu, Manuel Isidoro, 1809-1865


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    • Belzu Humérez

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    • Belzu Humérez, Manuel Isidoro, 1809-1865
    • Humérez, Manuel Isidoro Betzu, 1809-1865
    • Belzu, Isidoro, 1809-1865
    • Belzu, Tata, 1809-1865

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        • found: Sanjinés G., A. El Quijote mestizo, 1951:title page (Belzu)
        • found: Georgetown University, Center for Latin American Studies, Political Database of the Americas website, October 23, 2023:(Manuel Isidoro Belzu; military president of Bolivia (1848-1855)) - https://pdba.georgetown.edu/Executive/Bolivia/pres.html
        • found: Anuario de Leyes y Disposiciones Supremas (La Paz, Bolivia), 1905:page 135 (General Manuel Isidoro Belzu; became provisional president on October 12, 1848; served until August 11, 1855) - https://books.google.com/books?id=P4I7AQAAMAAJ&q=135#v=snippet&q=135&f=false
        • found: Bulletin de l'Institut français d'études andines, 34:1, 2005:page 68 (Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humérez; caudillo who was president 1848-1855) - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3657/19b124a9904e856e96205846e443877e4e19.pdf
        • found: Boletín (published by the Sociedad de Estudios Geográficos e Históricos de Santa Cruz), 77, 2020:(Manuel Isidoro Belzu; Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez; General Belzu; president of Bolivia; wife was Juana Manuela Gorriti Suviria (born July 15, 1816 near Rosario de la Frontera, Salta province, Argentina) they were married on August 19, 1832 in Tarija, Bolivia; they had three daughters: Edelmira, Mercedes, and a third who died in infancy; her parents were José Francisco Ignacio de Gorriti y Cueto (Gral. Ignacio Gorriti) and Feliciana Zuviría (married 1802; moved to Tarija, Bolivia in 1831)) - http://seghscz.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Boletin-N77.pdf
        • found: Museo Virtual Bolivia website, October 23, 2023:(Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humérez; born April 4, 1808 in La Paz; died March 23, 1865 in La Paz; parents were Gaspar Belzu and Manuela Humérez; married to Juana Manuela Gorriti (from Argentina); soldier who fought in various battles; president (December 6, 1848 to August 15, 1855)) - https://www.museovirtualbo.com/producto/1848-manuel-isidoro-belzu-humerez/
        • found: El Potosí (news) (Bolivia) website, October 23, 2023:posted November 15, 2020 (Juana Manuela Gorriti Zuviria; Juana Manuela Gorriti; born in Horcones, a fortified camp of Rosario de la Frontera in the province of Salta, Argentina; her father was José Ignacio Gorriti and her uncle was the priest Juan Ignacio Gorriti) - https://elpotosi.net/cultura/20201115_vea-por-que-se-vincula-a-juana-manuela-gorriti-con-la-saltena.html
        • found: Encyclopedia.com website, October 23, 2023:(Manuel Isidoro Belzu; born April 4, 1808 in La Paz, Bolivia; died March 27, 1865; president of Bolivia (1848-1855); born into a poor artisan family; educated at the Franciscan monastery and at thirteen he ran away from the monks and joined an army fighting Spanish forces; he fought for various generals, including Agustín Gamarra of Peru and Andrés Santa Cruz, José Ballivián, and José Miguel de Velasco of Bolivia; he became minister of war in the Velasco government in February 1848; he seized control of the government in December 1848; employing populist rhetoric, he was the first general to base his regime on the urban artisans and Cholos (people of mixed Indian and European heritage); although he remained in power until 1855, when he "constitutionally" handed the presidency to his son-in-law, General Jorge Córdova, he failed to consolidate control; he survived one assassination attempt in 1850 and forty-two revolutions against his authority; he represented Bolivia in Europe (1855-1857) where he remained until 1865; he returned to Bolivia in1865 in order to prevent the assumption of power by Mariano Melgarejo, who had him assassinated; wife was Juana Manuela Gorriti (born July 16, 1816 in Argentina; died November 6, 1892; best known for her fiction and memoirs; spent her life traveling among Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru and writing about these places and times; exiled from Argentina in 1831, Gorriti married Manuel Isidoro Belzú (later president of Bolivia) in 1833, but left him to live in Peru with their two daughters; she ran a girls' school and in 1845 published her first novel, La quena, set in colonial Peru and depicting conflicts among white, black, and indigenous races; she published major books of collected fiction in Buenos Aires (Sueños y realidades (1865), Panoramas de la vida (1876), Misceláneas (1878), and El mundo de los recuerdos (1886)) and many other texts, including a collection of recipes, Cocina ecléctica (1890), and autobiographical reflections, in La tierra natal (1889) and Lo íntimo, published after her death; during her years in Lima, Gorriti was renowned for her evening gatherings of the literary, artistic, and social elite which included a volume of these proceedings published as Veladas literarias de Lima 1876-77 (1892); her example inspired many of her Lima friends, including Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera and Clorinda Matto de Turner, to persevere in their writing of historical legends, stories, novels, essays, and poetry, often after reading them aloud at Gorriti's gatherings; in her own fiction, Gorriti wrote often of women characters who manage sometimes to escape from social constraints and expectations; she often set her stories in the Peruvian or Argentine countryside, during times of the early conquest or, more often, during the tumultuous years of the nineteenth century wars of independence and their aftermath; in her 1864 novel, Un viaje al país de oro, two young Peruvians travel to California at the height of the gold rush; her last novel, Oasis en la vida (1888), extols the merits of modernization); source: Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture) - https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/belzu-manuel-isidoro-1808-1865 - https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gorriti-juana-manuela-1816-1892
        • found: Gobierno de Salta (Argentina) website, October 25, 2023:posted May 5, 2020 (Dr. Juan Ignacio de Gorriti; born in Jujuy; parents were Ignacio Gorriti (originally from Villa de Ascoytia, Guipuscoa province, Spain) and Feliciana de Cueto; brothers were Dr. José Ignacio de Gorriti (born June 20, 1770 in Jujuy) and Coronel José Francisco de Gorriti (of the Ejército de Milicias Gauchas of General Martín Miguel de Güemes); representative to the Primera Junta de 1810; his brother Dr. José Ignacio de Gorriti married Feliciana de Zuviría y Castellanos (sister of Dr. Facundo de Zuviría, president of the Congreso Constituyente of 1853) and they had two daughters Juana María Gorriti (married to General Manuel Puch who was brother of General Dionisio Puch and Carmen who was the wife of Güemes) and Juana Manuela Gorriti (celebrated author novelist, and historian from Argentina who was married to General Isidoro Belzu (Tata Belzu, assassinated by Melgarejo and was president of Bolivia))) - http://gobierno.salta.gob.ar/index.php/bicentenario/2611-doctor-general-don-jose-ignacio-de-gorriti

      • Editorial Notes

        • [Husband of: Gorriti, Juana Manuela, 1816-1892 (n 81042253)]
        • [Uncle (by marriage) of: Gorriti, Juan Ignacio de, 1766-1842 (n 84052773)]

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        • 1982-07-22: new
        • 2023-11-08: revised

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