PANAMA - FRANCE - 10c COVER - COLON to PARIS - PAQUEBOT CANCEL - 1898 RRR

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VERY NICE AND INTERESTING COVER SENT FROM COLON (25 MAR 1898) TO PARIS (16 APR 1898), BEARING A PAIR OF 5 CENTAVOS STAMPS OF COLOMBIA
PAQUEBOT "COLON A BORDEAUX - LIGNE 3" CANCELLATIONS
COVER WAS ADDRESSED TO RUFINO JOSE CUERVO
Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri
(
Bogotá
,
Colombia
), was a Colombian writer,
linguist
, and
philologist
.
He studied
Latin
and
Greek
, but the main part of his work was dedicated to the study of the dialectal variations of Spanish spoken in Colombia. About this topic, he wrote his book
Apuntaciones críticas sobre lenguaje bogotano
(
Critical Notes About Bogotan Language
, 1867), which is still an important reference in the study of the American Spanish language.
His most important work was
Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana
(
Dictionary of Castilian language construction and rection
). This work is updated on a regular basis by the
Caro y Cuervo Institute
. Cuervo also revised and republished the Spanish American grammar of
Andrés Bello
,
Castilian Grammar for Americans
.
Cuervo was one of the first linguists who promoted the union of the Spanish language in its different variants. He was worried about the segregationist trend in spoken Spanish and thought that this phenomenon was similar to the events following the fall of the
Roman Empire
, after which
Latin
gradually began splitting into several independent
Romance languages
, such as Spanish,
Portuguese
and Italian.
In 1878 he was admitted as the Colombian representative to the
Real Academia Española
. In 1882 he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death in 1911.
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