Francisco Sosa Escalante

Francisco Sosa Escalante (born April 2, 1848 in Campeche , † February 9, 1925 in Coyoacán ) was a Mexican author , poet , journalist , historian , biographer , member of parliament and from 1909 to 1912 director of the Mexican national library . He was a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística , among others .

Life

Sosa studied philosophy and law in Mérida and began his first journalistic work for La Esperanza in 1864 in the capital of Yucatán .

In the 1870s he founded the Revista de Mérida and, together with Vicente Riva Palacio, the newspaper El Radical . His critical texts against the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada , who was President of Mexico from 1872 to 1876 , earned him a sentence in the prison of San Juan de Ulúa . After his release, he settled in Coyoacán near Mexico City , where he maintained the center of his life from then on. There he lived for more than forty years in a house on Calle Santa Catarina , which is now named after him.

His historically significant works include books such as El episcopado mexicano (1871, German The Mexican Episcopate ), Biografías de mexicanos distinguidos (1884, German biographies of aspiring Mexicans ), Los contemporáneos (1888 , Eng . The contemporaries ), Bosquejo histórico de Coyoacán (1890, German historical overview of Coyoacán ) and Las estatuas de la Reforma (1890, German The monuments of Reforma ). The latter book describes the most important personalities in Mexican history , who are immortalized on the magnificent boulevard Paseo de la Reforma in the Mexican capital. The French translation was presented as Mexico's historical and literary contribution to the World's Fair in 1900 .

Web links

• Efemérides del Periodismo Mexicano: Francisco Sosa Escalante (Spanish; article from October 1, 2018)