Simón Bolívar

Also known as The Liberator, The Liberator of America

Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)

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Simón Bolívar was a male person from Jamaica, associated with the reggae genre. He was born in 1783 and died in 1830. He had no children.

His works include *Segundo centenario del libertador*, *Don Simón Bolívar y Palacios 1783-1830*, *Sus mejores paginas*, *En torno a la muerte de Bolivar ...*, *Cartas del libertador*, and *Escritos políticos*. He is referenced by 2,623 other encyclopedia articles.

Quotes attributed to him include, "The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty," and "The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!"

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1783
Died: 1830
Works: 236

Top works

Segundo centenario del libertador, Don Simón Bolívar y Palacios 1783-1830
Sus mejores paginas
En torno a la muerte de Bolivar ...
Cartas del libertador
Escritos políticos

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Jamaica
Active from: 1949-12-19
Active to: 2014-10-12

reggae

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 122
Total plays: 381

Similar artists

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD
· 2011 · cited 3,994x
Mesenchymal and haematopoietic stem cells form a unique bone marrow niche
· 2010 · cited 2,934x
Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies
· 2019 · cited 2,371x
Oral Nirmatrelvir for High-Risk, Nonhospitalized Adults with Covid-19
· 2022 · cited 2,160x
Cloning of the Gene Containing Mutations that Cause PARK8-Linked Parkinson's Disease
· 2004 · cited 2,095x

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Quotes

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”
“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”
“Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”
“The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!”
“Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.

Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards (criollo) but lost both parents as a child. He was educated abroad and lived in Spain, as was common for men of upper-class families in his day. While living in Madrid from 1800 to 1802, he was introduced to Enlightenment philosophy and married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa, who died in Venezuela from yellow fever in 1803. From 1803 to 1805, Bolívar embarked on a Grand Tour that ended in Rome, where he swore to end Spanish rule in the Americas. In 1807, Bolívar returned to Venezuela and promoted Venezuelan independence to other wealthy creoles. When Napoleon's Peninsular War weakened Spanish authority, Bolívar became a zealous combatant and politician in the Spanish American wars of independence.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simón Bolívar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.