Manuel Antonio Carreño

Manuel Antonio Carreño Muñoz (17 June 1812 – 4 September 1874) was a Venezuelan musician, teacher and diplomat. He reached many important goals in the field of diplomacy and teaching during his lifetime. He founded the prestigious ''Colegio Roscio'' and translated works like ''Reasoned, historical and dogmatic Catechism of Abbe Thériou'' and ''Introduction to the method to study the Latin language'' of Jean-Louis Burnouf into Spanish.

In 1853, he entered history with the publication of his ''Manual of Urbanity and Good Manners'' (nicknamed the "Manual of Carreño"), a sesquicentennial book that teaches and trains the individual in the management of decency, essential to the education of several generations, and reissued numerous times. He served as foreign minister and Minister of Finance of Venezuela. After his resignation from the latter post due to the Federal War, he left the country, living in New York and then in Paris, where he died. Provided by Wikipedia