page_title: Antonio Zinny
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Antonio Zinny / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Español: detalle de la tumba del historiador Antonio Zinny. Cementerio de la recoleta. Buenos Aires
context_page_description: Antonio Abraham Zinny was an Argentine lawyer, journalist and historian originally from Gibraltar.
  He was especially prominent as a popular historian of Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century and of the Governors of Argentine Provinces,
  the first serious attempt to chronicle the history of the provinces of Argentina.
context_section_description: Antonio Abraham Zinny was born in Gibraltar in October 1821.
  He studied law in Spain and in 1842 moved to Buenos Aires, where he completed his studies and received his doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Buenos Aires. 
  For a while he taught at the university.
  He moved to the city of Corrientes, where he founded the Argentine College. He also worked as a correspondent for the daily papers La Tribuna, La Nacion and El Nacional. 
  Curiously, these dailies had opposite political positions.
  On returning the Buenos Aires, Zinny organized the External Relations archives, and then the archives of the City of Buenos Aires.
  That work got him involved in history. 
  During Governor Adolfo Alsina's term of office, he was inspector general of schools in Buenos Aires province, fulfilling the duties of a minister of education. 
  He co-founded the Colegio de Mayo in Buenos Aires with Luis José de la Peña, Dardo Rocha and Eduardo Wilde.
  Antonio Abraham Zinny died in Buenos Aires in September 1890 .
caption: Tomb of the author in the cemetery of La Recoleta
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