RUFINO JOSE CUERVO

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'Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri' (Bogotá, Colombia, was a Colombian writer, linguist and philologist.
He studied widely the latin and greek language, but the main part of his work was dedicated to the study of the dialectal variations spoken in Colombia. About this topic, he wrote his book ''Apuntaciones críticas sobre lenguaje bogotano'' (critic notes about bogotan language) (1867 ), which is still nowadays, an important referente in the study of the hispanic american language. His most important work was 'Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana' (Dictionary of spanish language construction and regimen]]. This work is updated in a regular basis by the scholars of the Caro y Cuervo Institute, named after him and the also Colombian linguist Miguel Antonio Caro. He also revised and republished the Spanish American Grammar of Andrés Bello, Castilian Grammar Intended for the Use by Americans.
Cuervo was one of the first linguists who promoted the union of the Spanish language in its different variants. He was worried about the segregacionist trend in the spoken Spanish and thought that this phenomenon was similar to the events related with the Roman Empire when the Latin was separated in many independent romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
In 1878 he was admited as colombian representant to the Real Academia Española. In 1882 he moved to Paris, where he lived untill his death in 1911.

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