César Nicolás Penson (23 January 1855 – 29 October 1901) was an author, poet, and lawyer from the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

Biography

The son of Juana Tejera and William Nicholas Penson (an

Englishman The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. The English identity began with the Anglo-Saxons, when they we ...

), he attended an

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

where he learned to read and write. Later, he attended the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga in his hometown, where he perfected his studies in languages, music and mathematics from an early age standing out in literature.

Works

* ''Cosas añejas: Tradiciones y episodios de Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo, 1891.'' * ''Reseña histórico-romance en la ciudad Santo Domingo. San Pedro de Macoris: Ouisqueya, 1892.''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Penson, Cesar Nicolas 1855 births 1901 deaths Dominican Republic journalists Male journalists 19th-century Dominican Republic lawyers 19th-century philologists 19th-century Dominican Republic poets Dominican Republic male poets Lawyers from Santo Domingo Writers from Santo Domingo Dominican Republic people of English descent White Dominicans 19th-century male writers