Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez

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Tertulia
Tertulia
     

Other names: Patricio Leal, Inspector Ingenuo

Gender:Male

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1756  -  Cuba  -  Not applicable  -  He was born in Cuba, 1756.
1791  -  Bogotá  -  Unknown  -  He founded the Periodico de Santa Fé de Bogotá on 9 February 1791.
1819  -  Bogotá  -  Unknown  -  He died 2 June 1819, Santafé.

Connections:

Editors newspapers and magazines
Hosted independence meetings
Hosted tertulias (men)
Newspaper, Periodico de Santa Fe de Bogotá (Colombia)
Tertulia, Eutropélica
Writers (men)

Biography:
Born in Cuba, in 1756, he became Padre de periodismo colombiano. He founded the newspaper Periodico de Santa Fé de Bogotá on 9 February 1791. (Sánchez López, 652.)

He founded the cultural tertulia Eutropélica, at which a lack of confidence in the Viceroy government was expressed. (Forero, 19-23)

He used the pseudonyms Patricio Leal and El Inspector Ingenuo.

He died in Bogotá on 2 June 1819.

References:

Forero, Manuel José (1970) Grandes heroinas de Colombia, Doña Magdalena Ortega de Nariño, La Precursora
Sánchez López, Luis María (1985) Diccionario de escritores colombianos