Adolfo León Gómez (19 September 1857 – 9 June 1927) was a Colombian poet, jurist and politician born in
Pasca
Pasca is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca department of Colombia located in the Andes. It belongs to the Sumapaz Province. Pasca is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the capital B ...
,
Cundinamarca,
Republic of New Granada
The Republic of New Granada was a Centralism, centralist unitary republic consisting primarily of present-day Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil that existed from 1831 to 1858. ...
. He was a grandson of
Josefa Acevedo de Gomez, the first secular woman writer in Colombia. His three act play in verse ''El Soldado'', related to the decisive
battle of La Humareda, and the end of the
Colombian civil war of 1884-1885, gave life to the popular
pasillo "El Soldado".
Works
*''El soldado: drama histórico'' 1892
[Apolo: revista de arte - Volumes 1-10 1906 - Page 260 "El doctor Adolfo León Gómez, autor del hermoso drama «El Soldado» del cual hablamos en números anteriores, acaba de obsequiarnos con un grueso volumen de poesías que publicó en colaboración con su hermano Ernesto "]
Further reading
*Sánchez López, Luis María: ''Diccionario de escritores colombianos'', - 2a. ed. - Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1982
References
1857 births
1927 deaths
Colombian male writers
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