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Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga

Catholic priest and scholar (1771-1848)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2598203 ↗
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Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (Montevideo, 9 December 1771 – Montevideo, 16 February 1848) was a Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist.

He was one of those principally responsible for the founding of the National Library of Uruguay and the National University of Uruguay. Further, in 1837, he was part of a committee in charge of establishing the National Museum of Natural History.

The private Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (established 1985) is named after him.

Bibliography

Escritos de Don Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga. Montevideo: Instituto Histórico y Geográfico del Uruguay, 1922-1924, 3 v.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.