José Ingenieros
José Ingenieros (born Giuseppe Ingegnieri, April 24, 1877 – October 31, 1925) was an Argentine physician, pharmacist, positivist philosopher and essayist.[1][2]
He was born in Palermo (Italy), and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1900. Ingenieros was philosophically influenced by Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte, and wrote a very important philosophical and social work, "El hombre mediocre" (The Mediocre Man), in 1913. Ingenieros founded the Buenos Aires Institute of Criminology in 1907 and the Argentine Psychological Society in 1908; he was elected President of the Argentine Medical Association in 1909.
Ingenieros married Eva Rutenberg, in Lausanne, in 1914. Appointed Assistant Dean of the School of Philosophy and Letters of his alma mater, he played a prominent role in the landmark University reform in Argentina, in 1918. He resigned his academic posts in 1919 to join Claridad, a communist organization, and in 1922, formed Unión Latinoamerica, a political action committee focused on anti-imperialism. He was an active Freemason since 1898.[3] He founded a monthly, Renovación, in 1925, but died in Buenos Aires later that year.
References
[edit]- ^ Torres-Rioseco, Arturo (1926). "José Ingenieros (1877-1925)". The Southwestern Political and Social Science Quarterly. 6 (4): 295–304. ISSN 2374-1309.
- ^ Holbo, Paul S. (1964). "José Ingenieros, Argentine Intellectual Historian: La Evolución de Las Ideas Argentinas". The Americas. 21 (1): 20–35. doi:10.2307/979703. ISSN 0003-1615.
- ^ "Masones Ilustres Argentinos". Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
Sources
[edit]- Encyclopedia Americana (United States: Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1969 edition), pg 172
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