Sinibaldo de Mas i Sans (1809,

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– 1868,

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) was a known

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diplomat to Asia during the 19th century. An adventurer and a poet, he introduced photography in the Philippines in 1841. He was also a Spanish ambassador to

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.Guardiola, Juan. The Philippine Imaginary, Sociedad Española de Acción Cultural en el Exterior (SEACEX), (note:Sinibaldo de Mas is mentioned on page 4), Casa Asia and Seacex.es (undated)
, retrieved on: August 11, 2007 He was also a supporter of Iberian federalism.

In the Philippines

De Mas left

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in 1834. During his two-and-a-half-year stay in the

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, de Mas made a living by taking photographs because of limited financial support from the Spanish government. It was believed that de Mas obtained his daguerreotype camera either in Spain or from Bengal,

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in 1839. He wrote the ''Informe sobre el estado de las Filipinas en 1842'' (A Report on the Status of the Philippines in 1842).

References

Specific

General

* Sinibaldo de Mas, Spanish-language Wikipedia, es.Wikipedia.org, retrieved on: August 11, 2007 * Rocamora, Jose Antonio. ''El nacionalismo ibérico: 1732-1936'' (Iberian Nationalism: 1732-1936), Publicaciones universidad de Valladolid (language: Spanish).

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Portrait of Sinibaldo de Mas
at Seacex.es 1809 births 1868 deaths Photography in the Philippines Spanish poets Spanish photographers Ambassadors of Spain Spanish sinologists Spanish male poets 19th-century poets 19th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-poet-stub