Rafael María Baralt

Rafael María Baralt
Born
Rafael María Baralt y Pérez

(1810-07-03)3 July 1810
Died4 January 1860(1860-01-04) (aged 49)
Madrid, Spain
Seat R of the Real Academia Española
In office
27 November 1853  4 January 1860
Preceded byJuan Donoso Cortés
Succeeded byTomás Rodríguez Rubí

Rafael María Baralt y Pérez (3 July 1810 - 4 January 1860) was a Venezuelan diplomat and one of the country's most famed writers, philologists, and historians. He was the first Latin American to occupy a chair at the Real Academia Española.