Ana Arbizú y Flores

Ana Mateo Arbizú y Flores (21 September 1825 - 30 November 1903), also known as Ana Arbizú de Guardiola, was a Honduran poet, considered the first in her country.[1]

Ana Arbizú y Flores
First Lady of Honduras
In office
17 February 1856 – 11 January 1862
Preceded bySeveriana Arbizú
Succeeded byMaría Ana Milla Castejón
Personal details
Born(1825-09-21)21 September 1825
Yuscarán, Honduras
Died30 November 1903(1903-11-30) (aged 78)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
SpouseJosé Santos Guardiola

Biography

Ana Mateo Arbizú y Flores was born in Yuscarán on 21 September 1825, the daughter of Calixto Arbizu Vizcaya and Santos Flores. Her first literary work appeared in Tegucigalpa in 1847, made in honor of the death of her father. Another composition appeared in the newspaper La Gaceta in 1865, as a reminder of her daughter Gumersinda.[2][3]

Arbizú became First Lady of Honduras, since her husband José Santos Guardiola was president of Honduras between 1856 and 1862. According to historian Anarella Véles, she and her husband "made Honduras a better country with a clearer identity by creating the symbols homelands".[4] Due to Guardiola's assassination in 1862, the family had to emigrate from Comayagua, where they were originally from, to the capital, Tegucigalpa.[5]

Arbizú was the mother of Genoveva Guardiola de Estrada Palma and the mother-in-law of Tomás Estrada Palma.[6][7]

References
  1. Cortés Cáceres, Héctor Ramón «Ana Mateo Arbizú Flores de Guardiola». Revista Yuscarán Ayer y Hoy, núm. 1, diciembre 2012.
  2. González, José. Cronología de la literatura Hondureña del siglo XX. Tegucigalpa: Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, 2008, p. 237.
  3. Pagoaga, Raúl Arturo. La mujer hondureña bajo el cielo del arte, la ciencia y su influencia social. Tegucigalpa: Imprenta Calderón, 1985, p. 24, 29.
  4. "Estas son las 10 mujeres que hicieron historia en Honduras". www.tunota.com (in Spanish). Tunota. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  5. González, José. Diccionario de literatos hondureños. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 2004.
  6. Cortés Cáceres, Hector Ramón (26 May 2013). "La Familia Guardiola Arbizu" [The Guardiola Arbizu Family]. Historia de Yuscarán (in Spanish). Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Hector Ramón Cortés Cáceres. Archived from the original on 22 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017. Self-published but with citations to source material.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. "Honduras, bautismos, 1730–1930: Maria Genoveva De Jesus Guardiola". FamilySearch (in Spanish). Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Arquivo Nacional. 9 September 1858. FHL digital folder #1291454. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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