Pedro de Ángelis
Pedro de Ángelis
Personal details
BornJune 29, 1784
Naples, Italy
DiedFebruary 10, 1859
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting placeLa Recoleta Cemetery
SpouseMélanie Dayet
OccupationHistorian
Publisher
Statesman
ProfessionJournalist

Pedro de Ángelis (1784–1859) was a Neapolitan journalist, historian and politician.[1] He had an outstanding performance in Argentina where he founded the newspaper El Lucero.[2]

Biography

residence of Buenos Aires where Pedro de Angelis lived.

He was born in Naples, the son of Domenico de Ángelis and Juliet de Rossi, belonging to a noble Italian family.[3] He served in the Napoleonic armies during the French occupation of Naples. He visited and then resided in some European cities, including Paris and Geneva, where he possibly met his wife, the Swiss Mélanie Dayet.

In 1827, he arrived in Buenos Aires where he was in charge of the Imprenta del Estado, and founded several newspapers, among them El Conciliador and El Lucero.[4] From his editorials he supported the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas. In 1833, he published El Restaurador de las Leyes.[5]

He traveled to Rio de Janeiro after the fall of the Rosas government, returning to Argentina shortly after. In 1858, he was appointed as Consul General of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies before the Argentine Confederation.[6]

Pedro de Ángelis was a member of the Société de Géographie of Paris, the Royal Geographical Society of London,[7] the Massachusetts Historical Society[8] and American Philosophical Society.[9] He was related to the main writers of the time like Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, a personal friend.[10]

Among his best works is included Colección de Obras y Documentos relativos a la Historia Antigua y Moderna de las Provincias del Río de la Plata, a book of several volumes on Argentine history from the beginning of colonization to the Revolution of May, and the Declaration of Independence.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Coleccion de Obras y Documentos relativos a la Historia antigua. Pedro de Angelis. 1837.
  2. ↑ Revista de historia del derecho, Volumen9. Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho. 1981.
  3. ↑ Carbonários no Rio da Prata: jornalistas italianos e a circulação de idéias na Região Platina (1727–1860). Eduardo Scheidt. 2008. ISBN 9788561022167.
  4. ↑ Iconografía de Rosas y de la Federación, por F. Chávez. Juan A. Pradère. 1970.
  5. ↑ Como se ama a la patria. R. Levene.
  6. ↑ Registro oficial de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province). 1875.
  7. ↑ La ciudad y los libros: excursión bibliográfica al pasado porteño. Rafael Alberto Arrieta. 1955.
  8. ↑ Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ... Charles Deane, Chandler Robbins. 1860.
  9. ↑ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ..., Volúmenes9-10. American Philosophical Society. 1865.
  10. ↑ Los antecedentes europeos de Pedro de Angelis, contribución a su biografía. El Atenso, 1944. 1944.
  11. ↑ Coleccion de obras y documentos relativos á la historia antigua. Pedro De Angelis. 1836. Colección de Obras y Documentos relativos a la Historia Antigua y Moderna de las Provincias del Río de la Plata,.
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