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Constancio C. Vigil (Biography)
| Biography of Constancio C. Vigil written by William Belmont Parker |
| From Uruguayans of to-day ~ The Hispanic Society of America, 1921 |
Constancio C. Vigil, the son of Constancio C. Vigil and Ventura Olidem, was born on the fourth of September, 1876, in the town of Rocha, but he received his education in Montevideo at the University, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Science and Letters in 1896.
For twenty-seven years he has been active in journalism, both as manager and editor of important publications in the zone of the Río Plata. In this capacity, he has worked zealously; he has founded and directed a number of journals, including El Uruguay, El Derecho, La Prensa, and La Alborada, of Montevideo; and in Buenos Aires he has been one of the founders of Pulgarcito, a very successful satirical paper, Germinal, Mundo Argentino, Atlántida, El Gráfico, and Billiken, a monthly publication for children with a large circulation. He has also contributed to numerous other South American and European newspapers and magazines. He is the founder and director of the publishing business Editorial Atlantida, which is now issuing four publications, and he is author of the following works: Sinceridad, 1908; Memorias del doctor Brain, 1913; El clero católico y la educacion, 1915; Miseria artificial: sus causas y sus remedios, 1919; El Erial, the first edition of which appeared in 1914, a work read all over South America and favourably mentioned by European writers.
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