Raúl Montero Bustamante (Biography)

Biography of Raúl Montero Bustamante written by William Belmont Parker

From Uruguayans of to-day ~ The Hispanic Society of America, 1921

RAÚL MONTERO BUSTAMANTE

Poet and journalist.

‎ Raúl Montero Bustamante, the son of José Montero Wentuises and Adriana Bustamante, was born on the fourth of April, 1881, at Montevideo, where he began his literary career in the University journal Los Debates in the year 1898. A year later he founded and edited La Revista Literaria, a fortnightly publication, which was the organ of a new literary generation, and in which many writers, who later became well-known, first got an opening. In 1901, with Dr. Alberto Palomeque, he started and edited the magazine Vida Moderna, in which he had among his contributors the most representative men of South America. This magazine, which he kept going with some interruptions for ten years, contains a large part of his critical work. In 1904 he was made correspondent of the well-known Buenos Aires paper La Prensa, to which, for more than ten years, he contributed weekly letters of chronicle and criticism. In 1910 he was appointed editor of the Montevidean daily paper El Bien, a post which he kept until 1913.

‎ Meanwhile, in 1902, he had been appointed Secretary of the Museum and Pedagogical Library, and at the same time Secretary-General of the National Meteorological Service, posts which he retained until he became Assistant-Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Bank of the Republic, a position which he fills at the present time. In 1915 he was elected Secretary of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Uruguay, an academic institution of which he is a charter member.

‎ Apart from such work as is scattered in various magazines and other publications he is the author of Versos, 1900; Lavalleja, a poem which was awarded the prize in the national competition of 1902; Antología de poetas uruguayos, with critical and biographical notes, 1905; Comedias, monólogos y composiciones recitables, 1908; Semblanza de Carlos María Ramírez, written at the request of one of the committees of the Ateneo of Uruguay, 1908; Historia de la literatura uruguaya, 1910; Semblanza de don Bruno Zabala, fundador de Montevideo, awarded a prize in the competition of 1909; La virgen de los 33, 1913; La generación romántica y su héroe, 1916; Historia Médica anecdótica nacional, 1917.

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