Andrés Bello
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Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part o
Portrait by Raymond Monvoisin
Signature of Andrés Bello, 1804
Blue plaque commemorating Bello on 58 Grafton Way, London
Statue of Andrés Bello in the Dehesa de la Villa, Madrid (Spain).
Bello orthography
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The Bello orthography or Chilean orthography was a Spanish-language orthography created by the Venezuelan linguist Andrés Bello and the Colombian Juan García del Río.
Andrés Bello
…died as well. In 1823, Bello published the Biblioteca América with Juan Garcia del Rio which was widely hailed in Europe. Their collaboration included a reform of Spanish orthography that became official in several Spanish American countries, most lastingly in Chile. In 1826 he published the journal Repertorio…
Bello orthography in University of Chile's School of Engineering entrance. This reads ESCUELA DE INJENIERIA; current standard spelling would be ESCUELA DE INGENIERIA.
Excerpt from the Anales de la Universidad de Chile (1843), written in Bello's orthography
Observaciones a la lei electoral vijente (1876), by Arturo Prat