Simón Rodríguez

Simón Rodríguez was born in Caracas on October 28, 1769Pedagogue and Venezuelan writer, born in Caracas in 1771 and died in Amotape, Peru, in 1854. Master of Simón Bolívar, his concerns and reforming ideas had a powerful influence on the formation of El Libertador, according to he recognized himself.

Simón Rodríguez was really called Simón Carreño Rodríguez, but he dispensed with the first surname as a result of a disagreement with his brother Cayetano, a musician by profession. For his conspiratorial activities, he had to emigrate in 1794 and changed his name (Samuel Róbinson). The theatricality of his existence contrasts with his strict sense of honesty and the renewing transcendence of his pedagogical and social ideas.

He had the education of Simon Bolivar to his care until he was fourteen, and in 1804, when the teacher was in Vienna, he was introduced to the disciple, who accompanied him to Europe. It is said that from the Monte Sacro, in Rome, Simon Rodriguez made his disciple swear that he would dedicate his life to fight for the independence of his homeland. Be it true or not, it is part of the ritual theatricality that so influenced the soul of Bolívar.