37 Facts About Estanislao Zeballos

Estanislao Severo Zeballos was an Argentine lawyer and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of his country three times.

Estanislao Zeballos was one of the most prominent intellectuals and politicians of his time.

Estanislao Zeballos wrote on a broad range of subjects in books and periodicals, including Catholicism, history, ethnography and geography.

Estanislao Zeballos's father was an aide to General Juan Pablo Lopez, and was wounded in 1838 when fighting against the Indians.

Estanislao Zeballos's father supported the Great Army of Justo Jose de Urquiza in 1851, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Estanislao Zeballos's mother was from the families of Ricardo Lopez Jordan and Francisco Ramirez.

Estanislao Zeballos studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in his home town.

Estanislao Zeballos studied at the University of Buenos Aires in the Faculties of Law and Science.

Estanislao Zeballos led the student protests of 1871, caused by the suicide of the student Roberto Sanchez, who had unjustly been failed in an exam.

Estanislao Zeballos was one of the founders of the "Revolutionary Junta for University Reform" along with Pedro Narciso Arata, Francisco Ramos Mejia, Jose Maria Ramos Mejia, Lucio Vicente Lopez, Juan Carlos Belgrano, Jose Maria Cantilo, Francisco B Pico and others.

Estanislao Zeballos was elected Secretary of the Board, of which Belgrano was president.

Estanislao Zeballos graduated in law in 1874 and at once began to practice as a professor at the National College.

When on 24 September 1874 Jose C Paz closed down La Prensa to join the revolution of 1874, Zeballos joined him and was secretary of the campaign of Bartolome Mitre.

Estanislao Zeballos edited its review Anales and was one of its most active members.

Estanislao Zeballos wrote the book in a few weeks, at the request of General Julio Argentino Roca, to convince members of Congress to fund the Conquest of the Desert which was already being started by the then minister of war.

Estanislao Zeballos managed to obtain a subsidy to Florentino Ameghino to publish his studies of fossil mammals.

Estanislao Zeballos then wrote a fictionalized chronicles of the chieftains Calfucura and Paine, and a nonexistent Huiliche chieftain, Relmu.

That same year Zeballos was elected provincial deputy in a list that included Bernardo de Irigoyen, Miguel Cane, Lucio Vicente Lopez, Miguel Goyena, Nicolas Calvo, Delfin Gallo, Luis Saenz Pena, Jose C Paz, Antonino Cambaceres and Hipolito Yrigoyen.

Roca refused to give him support because at the national level Estanislao Zeballos supported Bernardo de Irigoyen against Roca's candidate for president, Miguel Angel Juarez Celman, who was elected.

In 1889, when Estanislao Zeballos was Speaker of the House of Representatives, he was appointed Foreign Minister by President Juarez Celman.

Estanislao Zeballos resigned along with most of the Cabinet in April 1890 at the beginning of the crisis would lead to the Revolution of the Park later that year.

Estanislao Zeballos was Foreign Minister again between October 1891 and October 1892, during the presidency of Carlos Pellegrini, during which he rejected the claim from Britain for compensation for British nationals who had suffered damages during the revolution of 1890.

Estanislao Zeballos faced claims from France over the expulsion of a ship of that flag from Argentine territorial waters.

Estanislao Zeballos presented several differences in interpretation of the boundary treaty of 1881 to the Chilean government.

Estanislao Zeballos performed decisively in the so-called Baltimore Incident, intervening in favor of the United States and against the Chilean government that succeeded the ousted President Jose Manuel Balmaceda.

Estanislao Zeballos left politics for several years, devoting himself to practice as a private attorney and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

Estanislao Zeballos was accused of being in favor of armament.

In Brazil, Estanislao Zeballos is generally thought to have planned an attack on that country in case of war, including the military occupation of Rio de Janeiro.

Estanislao Zeballos was accused of having forged a document by Jose Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, a prominent Brazilian diplomat.

Estanislao Zeballos then began a tour across the country to present to various audiences his views on Argentina's foreign policy, which lasted until the following year.

Estanislao Zeballos's collected speeches and articles appeared in the Journal of Law, History and Literature between 1908 and 1910 in a work entitled "Diplomacy Disarmed", in which he defended the balance of military forces as a basis for peace and the guarantee of equitable justice in disputes.

Estanislao Zeballos became a national deputy again from 1912 to 1916, and during this period he gave his most notable parliamentary performances.

Estanislao Zeballos systematized what he called the "Argentine Theory of Private Human Law", which was adopted by the International Law Association in 1922.

Estanislao Zeballos presented his theory in a voluminous book written in 5 volumes in French, "La Nationalite au point de vue de la legislation comparee et du Droit Prive humain".

Estanislao Zeballos's remains lie in the cemetery of La Recoleta.

Estanislao Zeballos was a prolific writer, publishing books, articles, lectures, biographies and bibliographical notes, amounting to over 400 titles.

Estanislao Zeballos wrote several biographies that have more literary than historical value, including those of Baron del Rio Branco, Bartolome Mitre, Julio Argentino Roca, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Martin Miguel de Guemes and Emilio Mitre, his friend since childhood.