page_title: José Canaveris
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: José Canaveris / Early years
caption_attribution_description: Español: Aviso publicado por La Gaceta Mercantil n° 21, en el cual don Juan José Canaveris (1780-1837), publica anuncio sobre la apertura de escuela particular
context_page_description: Juan José Canaveris was an Argentine jurist and politician, who served as military man, lawyer, notary, prosecutor and accountant of Buenos Aires. In 1809 he was honored by the Junta Suprema de Sevilla, for his heroic participation in the defense of Buenos Aires, during the English invasions in the Río de la Plata.
context_section_description: He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Juan Canaveris and Catalina Bernarda de Esparza, belonging to a distinguished family. He completed his primary and secondary studies in Buenos Aires, and possibly obtained his law degree in the National University of Córdoba. He began his career as government official in the early of 1800s, being later appointed to the position of notary at the Tribunal Mayor de Cuentas in 1810. 
  He took an active part during in the defense of the city during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, serving as assistant in the Cuerpo de Quinteros y Labradores, a cavalry unit under the command of  Antonio Luciano Ballester and Juan Clavería. The Corps of Quinteros was conformed in its majority by farmers and ranchers from the Province of Buenos Aires. 
  The January 13, 1809 the Supreme Junta of Seville decided on behalf of the king Ferdinand VII, reward the officers of the various organs of the militia, giving the rank of Captain to José Canaveris.
  He had a long activity as a criminal lawyer of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata. In 1825, he was legal representative of Colonel Francisco Montes Larrea, a respectable military man, who had suffered an assault in the Fonda de los Tres Reyes. Between 1826 and 1833 he served as procurador del número (justice assistant) of the city.
  He also had an active participation in the beginnings of Argentine education, a pioneer in the application of the Lancasterian method in the Río de la Plata. He had a school of first letters located a few meters from the Church of San Miguel de Arcangel.
caption: Notice about private school
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