Manuel Ancízar

Manuel Ancízar Basterra
4th Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Granadine Confederation
In office 23 November 1861 – 1 December 1862
President	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda
Preceded by	José María Rojas Garrido
Succeeded by	José María Rojas Garrido
2nd Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Venezuela
In office 1846–1846
President	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda
Preceded by	Lino de Pombo O'Donell
Succeeded by	Antonio María Pradilla Rueda
Personal details
Born	Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra (1812-12-25)25 December 1812 Bogotá, Cundinamarca
Died	March 21, 1882(1882-03-21) (aged 69) Bogotá, Cundinamarca, United States of Colombia
Resting place	Central Cemetery of Bogotá
Nationality	Colombian
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Agripina Samper Agudelo (1857—1882)
Children	Roberto Ancízar Samper Pablo Ancízar Samper Inés Ancízar Samper Jorge Ancízar Samper Manuel Ancízar Samper
Relatives	José María Samper Agudelo (brother-in-law) Miguel Samper Agudelo (brother-in-law)
Alma mater	University of Havana
Profession	Lawyer

Manuel Ancízar
Pen name	Alpha
Language	Spanish
Period	1845—1882
Genre	non-fiction, journalism
Subject	Philosophy; Geography, ethnography, and culture of Colombia
Notable works	Peregrinación del Alpha por las provincias del norte de La Nueva Granada
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ancízar and the second or maternal family name is Basterra.

Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra (25 December 1812 – 21 May 1882) was a Colombian lawyer, writer, and journalist. He founded a publishing house and a newspaper before joining the Chorographic Commission in 1850. He also served as the 4th Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Granadine Confederation, and as the first president of the National University of Colombia.

Personal life

Manuel Esteban was born on 25 December 1812 in Fontibon, Bogotá to José Francisco Ancízar y Zabaleta, Spaniard native of Navarre, and Juana Bernarda Basterra y Abaurrea, Spaniard native of Biscay. In 1819 his father, who had served as Corregidor of Zipaquirá under the Viceroy of New Granada, Juan José de Sámano y Uribarri; during the time of the Reconquista, was forced to flee the capital when the Spanish forces fell at the Battle of Boyacá and the victorious forces of General Simón Bolívar entered the capital. The family arrived in Cartagena de Indias, three of Manuel's siblings died in the arduous journey; in 1821 they had to flee again when this Spanish bastion fell to the forces of Admiral José Prudencio Padilla López. The Ancízar Basterra family landed this time in Cuba, a safe Spanish colony, where they remained under much impoverished circumstances as refugees; his mother and his only remaining sibling died few years after. In 1832 he graduated from the University of Saint Jerome in Civil Law, and two years later received his degree in Canon Law. On 4 July 1857 he married Agripina Samper Agudelo, sister of José María and Miguel Samper Agudelo, both writers and prominent politicians in Colombia; together they had five children: Roberto, Pablo, Inés, Jorge, and Manuel.

Selected works

• Ancízar, Manuel (1851) [1845]. Lecciones de psicología y moral (in Spanish). Bogotá: Neo-Granadino. OCLC 6559317.
• — (1853). Peregrinación de Alpha por las provincias del norte de la Nueva Granada, en 1850 i 51 (in Spanish). Bogotá: Echeverria Hermanos. OCLC 3043000.

Further reading

• Loaiza Cano, Gilberto (1996). "Manuel Ancízar y sus Lecciones de psicología y moral" (PDF). Historia Crítica (in Spanish) (13). Bogotá: University of the Andes: 43–60. ISSN 0121-1617. OCLC 67618668.
• — (2004). Manuel Ancízar y su época (1811-1882): biografía de un político hispanoamericano del siglo XIX (in Spanish). Medellín: University of Antioquia. ISBN 9789586550550. OCLC 57833041.