Tulio Antonio Febres-Cordero Troconis (May 31, 1860 – June 3, 1938) was a

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writer, historian, university professor and journalist. As a

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, he developed the technique imagotipia (1885), or art to represent images with

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s. He taught "

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" at the University of the Andes and made a fundamental contribution to the intellectual culture of

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, by studying the history of Mérida.

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1869 births 1938 deaths People from Mérida, Mérida Topographers Academic staff of the University of the Andes (Venezuela) 20th-century Venezuelan historians Venezuelan journalists Venezuelan male writers 19th-century Venezuelan historians {{Venezuela-writer-stub