18 Facts About Ricardo Rossel

Ricardo Rossel Sirot was a Peruvian author, poet, politician, scholar, and entrepreneur.

Ricardo Rossel was the founder of the Club Literario de Lima.

Ricardo Rossel was born in Lima to the French immigrant Eugenio Rossel, a man from the Nimes region of Languedoc, who arrived in Peru in 1826 and established a French imports store in Lima, and Carmen Sirot, a woman from Lima.

Ricardo Rossel had four siblings - Manuel Eugenio, Carlos Amador, Rosalia and Isidro.

Ricardo Rossel's father died in 1859, which compelled him to take charge of the family business.

Ricardo Rossel devoted himself to the agricultural industry until 1874 when he established a merchant store, which brought him even more recognition in the city of Callao.

Ricardo Rossel explored the mining industry, becoming manager and partner of a mining company in the Andes region.

Ricardo Rossel married Matilde Dulanto Valcarcel, daughter of Manuel Cipriano Dulanto, a hero of the independence war and beloved resident of the city of Callao, and Maria de los Santos Valcarcel.

Ricardo Rossel held municipal positions in the local government of Callao, and served on various boards and commissions officers for commercial and economic affairs, and was appointed president of the commercial court of the same city.

Ricardo Rossel was elected diputado for Lima during the government of president Remigio Morales Bermudez, where he received fame as a speaker.

Ricardo Rossel was a man mostly dedicated to commerce and industry, but with a special passion for poetry and writing, which compelled him, in his few spare moments, to create works and compositions of different kinds: literary discourses, translations, reports, press articles, novels, stories, and poetry.

Ricardo Rossel was the founder and a member of the Club Literario de Lima, and was elected President of its section of literature from 1875 to 1881, then reappointed in 1885 for the same office until 1886, when the Club Literario became the Ateneo de Lima, and was elected its vice president for several years.

Ricardo Rossel was a member of the Real Academia Espanola since 1886.

Ricardo Rossel did an analysis of the works of Manuel Breton de los Herreros, which earned him praise from the press of Latin America and Spain.

Ricardo Rossel's fluency in French, which he learned with his father since he was a child, allowed him to translate into Spanish French poetry, which was appreciated in his time, from authors like Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, and Victor Hugo, and were published in different media.

Ricardo Rossel was a man of many talents; his poetry and the quality of his literary skills were innate tools of his personality and character, which he cultured through study and dedication.

Ricardo Rossel was a regular participant of the famous tertulias of the Argentinean writer Juana Manuela Gorriti while she lived in Lima.

Ricardo Rossel died on December 6,1909, at the city of Barranco at age 68.