Baldomero Sanín Cano
Baldomero Sanín Cano was a Colombian essayist, journalist, linguist, humanist and university professor.
He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England. He was a collaborator of the Hispania magazine and an editor of the newspaper La Nación of Buenos Aires. He served as a minister in Argentina 1934. He was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua. He was also Rector of the University of El Cauca in Popayan and also collaborator of El Tiempo in Bogota.Works
- La administración Reyes 1904–1909
- Colombia hace sesenta años
- An elementary Spanish grammar
- La civilización manual y otros ensayos
- Indagaciones e imágenes
- Manual de historia de la literatura española
- Crítica y arte
- Divagaciones filológicas y apólogos literarios
- Ensayos
- De mi vida y otras vidas
- El humanismo y el progreso del hombre
- Pesadumbre de la belleza y otros cuentos y apólogos
- Letras colombianas.