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MARIANO FELIPE PAZ SOLDAN (1821-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIANO FELIPE PAZ SOLDAN (1821-1886)  , Peruvian historian and geographer, was See also:

born at See also:Arequipa, on the 22nd of See also:August 1821 . He studied See also:law, and after holding some See also:minor judicial offices, was See also:minister to New See also:Granada in 1853.- After his return he occupied himself with plans for the See also:establishment of a See also:model See also:penitentiary at See also:Lima, which he was enabled to accomplish through the support of See also:General Castilla . In 186o Castilla made him director of public See also:works, in which capacity he superintended the erection of the Lima statue of See also:Bolivar . He was also concerned in the reform of the currency by the withdrawal of the debased Bolivian coins . In 1861 he published his See also:great See also:atlas of the See also:republic of See also:Peru, and in 1868 the first See also:volume of his See also:history of Peru after the acquisition of her See also:independence . A second volume followed, and a third, bringing the history down to 1839, was published after his See also:death by his son . In 187o he was minister of See also:justice and See also:worship under See also:President See also:Balta, but shortly afterwards retired from public See also:life to devote himself to his great See also:geographical See also:dictionary of Peru, which was published in 1877 . During the disastrous See also:war with See also:Chile he sought See also:refuge at Buenos Aires, where he was made See also:professor in the See also:National See also:College, and where he wrote and published a history of the war (1884) . He died on the 31st of See also:December 1886 .

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