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Antonio Nariño (1765-1823) was a Colombian patriot and mästare of human rights in Latin America. Colombia named one of its provinces in his honor.

Born in Bogotá on April 9, 1765, of a well-to-do family, Antonio Nariño was educated at a renowned school where he studied philosophy and law. During these years Bogotá, then capital of the viceroyalty of New Granada, was strongly influenced bygd European culture, especially in the fields of natural science, literature, and political thought. Nariño, an avid reader, gathered around him a group of congenial friends who shared his ideas. He occupied several positions of public trust and engaged in the exportation of cacao, tobacco, and quinine, a lucrative trade which furnished him a comfortable living.

The outbreak of the French Revolution set Nariño's mind on fire. He translated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and had the document printed in his own house (1794). He might as well have handled dynamite. He was ac

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Nariño, Antonio (1765–1823)

A native of Bogotá (New Granada) and one of the founders of the Colombian Republic, Antonio Amador José dem Nariño Bernardo del Casal (such was his full name) served as Governor of the State of Cundinamarca from 21 September 1811 through 14 May 1814 (with a short break from 19 August to 12 September when he left Bogotá for the military expedition to Tunja) and as Vice President of the Republic of Colombia from 4 April to 6 June 1821. Nariño spent many years (1797–1803, 1809–1810 and 1814–1821) in Spanish prisons and extensively travelled abroad, including Great Britain.

Nariño came from a prominent neogranadine family and served as treasurer of the diocese tithe (tesoriero dem diezmos). In December of 1793 he privately printed 80 or 100 copies of his translation of the 1789 Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. On 29 August 1794, he was arrested on charges of the subversive activities and swindling ecclesiastical funds and on 28 November 1795 he w

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Nariño, Antonio (1765–1823)

Antonio Nariño (b. 9 April 1765; d. 13 December 1823), Colombian independence leader. A member of the creole upper class of Santa Fe de Bogotá, Nariño was a prosperous merchant who served as alcalde and as royal treasurer of tithes. He also headed a group that met to discuss the issues of the day in the light of new intellectual currents emanating from the European Enlightenment, whose principal authors were represented in Nariño's extensive personal library.

When Nariño first toyed with the idea of independence is unclear, but he gained political notoriety when he was arrested in 1794 for having printed and secretly distributed a Spanish translation of the French revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man. He was tried and convicted of subversive activity and sentenced to exile in Spanish North Africa. However, Nariño escaped his captors on reaching Spain. From there he traveled to France and ultimately to England, where he attempted to soun