Diego Barros Arana
Born	( 1830-08-16 ) August 16, 1830 Santiago, Chile
Died	November 4, 1907 (1907-11-04) (aged 77) Santiago, Chile
Known for	Historia General de Chile
Academic work
Discipline	History of Chile

Diego Jacinto Agustin Barros Arana ( Latin American Spanish: [?dje?o ?βaros a??ana] ; August 16, 1830 ? November 4, 1907) was a Chilean professor, legislator, minister and diplomat. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century. His main work General History of Chile ( Spanish : Historia General de Chile ) is a 15-volume work that spanned over 300 years of the nation's history.

Barros Arana was of Basque descent. ^[1] He also was an educator and a diplomat . He was director of the Instituto Nacional, a public high school, and of the University of Chile .

Works [ edit ]

• Estudios historicos sobre Vicente Benavides y las campanas del Sur: 1818?1822 (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta de Julio Belin y Compania. 1850.
• Historia General de la Independencia de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. I?IV. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril. 1855.
• Vida y Viajes de Hernando de Magallanes (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Nacional. 1864.
• Compendio de Historia Moderna (in Spanish). Valparaiso, Chile: Imprenta y Libreria del Mercurio. 1870.
• Riquezas de los Antiguos Jesuitas de Chile (in Spanish). Valparaiso, Chile: Imprenta y Libreria del Mercurio. 1872.
• Mi Destitucion (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril. 1873.
• Proceso de Pedro de Valdivia y Otros Documentos Ineditos Concernientes a Este Conquistador (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Libreria Central de Augusto Raymond. 1873.
• Don Miguel Luis Amunategui, Candidato a la Presidencia de la Republica (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril. 1875.
• Don Claudio Gay, su Vida y sus Obras, Estudio Biografico y Critico (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Nacional. 1876. Online , p. PP7, at Google Books
• Historia de la Guerra del Pacifico (1879-1880) (in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Santiago, Chile: Libreria Central de Mariano Servat. 1880.
  • Histoire de la Guerre du Pacifique (1879-1880) (in French). Paris, France: Librairie Militaire de Dumaine. 1881.
• Historia General de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. I?XVI. Santiago, Chile: Rafael Jover. 1884?1902.
• Elementos de Geografia Fisica (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Libreria Central de Mariano Servat. 1888.
• La Cuestion de Limites entre Chile y la Republica Argentina (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. 1895.
• El Doctor Don Rodolfo Amando Philippi su Vida y sus Obras (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. 1904.
• Un Decenio de la Historia de Chile (1841-1851) (in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta y Encuadernacion Universitaria. 1905.

List of works [ edit ]

• Chiappa, Victor M. (1907). Bibliografia de don Diego Barros Arana (in Spanish). Imprenta alemana.

See also [ edit ]

• History of Chile

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Media related to Diego Barros Arana at Wikimedia Commons

• Works by or about Diego Barros Arana at Internet Archive