Enrique Piñeyro

Cuban historiographer, critic and essayist.

He completed his early studies at the San Salvador school, where he would later be a professor. He then studied Law, obtaining his degree in 1863.

His literary vocation and his broad and concerned spirit find their first expression in journalism, collaborating in numerous publications, among them Brisas de Cuba, El Siglo, Revista Habanera, Noches Literarias and Revista del Pueblo.

He traveled to Europe in 1861 and later, back in America, he went to New York as secretary of the Morales Lemus legation, directing La Revolución, the organ of the Cuban revolutionary junta established in New York, where in 1872 he founded El Mundo Nuevo.

In 1875 he moved to South America and shortly after to Europe, where, after a brief trip to Cuba, he settled permanently.

Like most Cuban writers, Enrique Piñeyro presented the dual role of intellectual and man of action in favor of Cuban independence, journalist and traveler. His work, in addition to journalistic activity, is summarized in a dual type, historical and critical. To the first belong Morales Lemus y la revolución cubana (1872), Biografía del general San Martín (1870), Hombres y glorias de América, Cómo acabó la dominación de España en América, a production, as can be seen, of patriotic theme, a song to the renaissance of the new America. He manifests in it his extensive culture and an elevated spirit, but his greatest importance has been the dissemination and knowledge of America in Europe.