Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol

Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol , III. Marqués de Aycinena (born  August 29, 1792 in Guatemala City , †  February 17, 1865 in Guatemala City) was a Guatemalan clergyman, businessman and politician.

Life

Juan José de Aycinena was the second son of Vicente Alberto de Aycinena y Carillo, II. Marqués de Aycinena and grandson of Juan Fermín de Aycinena e Irigoyén . He opted for a career in the church, studied theology and law at the Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala and received his doctorate . Aycinena quickly made a career within the Archdiocese of Guatemala . He was ordained a priest around 1818 . From 1824 to 1859/59 he was synod judge and financial administrator of the archbishop's curia. He was considered a gifted speaker and wrote numerous writings. After the death of his father and his older brother in 1814, he also became heir to the title of nobility (which he lost in 1823 due to a law of the Central American Constituent Assembly that abolished all titles of nobility) and of the important trading company Casa de Aycinena , which he owned led with great skill in economically difficult times. On April 15, 1859 he was by Pope Pius IX. Appointed Titular Bishop of Trajanopolis and Auxiliary Bishop in Guatemala . The episcopal ordination donated him his relative, the Bishop of Leon de Nicaragua , José Bernardo Piñol y Aycinena , on August 21 the same year.

Political commitment

In addition to his church and business activities, Aycinena was actively involved in the conservative party. In 1821/22 he was a member of the provisional government council of Central America set up by the Declaration of Independence and a vehement supporter of the connection between Central America and the Mexican Empire operated by Gabino Gaínza . In 1829, after the overthrow of the government of his uncle Mariano, he was expelled from the country and stayed for some time in New Orleans . However, he soon returned. In 1838, as a member of the federal parliament, he worked intensively to dissolve the Central American Confederation . After Guatemala left the Confederation, Aycinena was Foreign Minister in the government of President Mariano Rivera Paz from 1839 to 1841 . In this capacity he contacted the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the aim of concluding a treaty recognizing Guatemala's sovereignty over British Honduras . In the end, however, this contract was only concluded almost 20 years later under the government of Rafael Carrera , in which his brother Pedro played a major role as foreign minister. After the official declaration of Guatemala as an independent republic by President Carrera in 1851, Aycinena was a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Guatemalan Parliament until his death.

literature

• David Lee Chandler: Juan José de Aycinena: idealista conservador de la Guatemala del siglo XIX . Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies 1988, ISBN 0-910443-06-8

Web links

• Entry for Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol on catholic-hierarchy.org