Chilean historian, born at Santiago on the 11th of January 1828, at the university of which place he was educated. He became noted as a scholar, and aided Andres Bello in the latter’s History of Greece and Rome. In most of his own works he had the collaboration of his brother, Gregorio Victor. The important works to his credit are Memoria Sobre la Reconquista Española (1850); Biografias de Americanos (1854); Compendio de la Historia Politica y Eclesiastica de Chile (1856); Descubrimiento y Conquista de Chile (1862); and Los Precursores de la Independencia de Chile (1872–73). He died in 1888.
