Ramon de la Sagra

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Ramón de la Sagra around 1860

Ramón Dionisio de la Sagra y Peris (born April 8, 1798 in La Coruña , Spain, † May 23, 1871 in Neuchâtel , Switzerland) was a Spanish economist , botanist and anarchist .

Life

The son of the trader Lorenzo Martínez de la Sagra studied physics at the Nautical School in Coruña and from 1815-1818 at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Santiago de Compostela mathematics, medicine and anatomy. In 1819 he met Casiano de Prado .

With his liberal ideas he ran into problems with the Inquisition. The revolution of 1820 took him to Madrid, where he co-founded the Conservatives .

In 1821 he emigrated to Cuba and became assistant to the tobacco manufacturer Agustìn Rodriguez. In 1822 he became a professor of natural history and married Manuela Turnes del Rìo. From this time he worked as director of the Havana Botanical Gardens . From April 20 to September 23, 1835 he traveled through the USA and then settled in Paris, where he wrote his book Five Months in the United States of North America .

After the Spanish Constitution of 1837 , he returned to Spain and was elected MP from La Coruña. 1838–1857 he published his monumental Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'île de Cuba in 13 volumes.

In 1845 Spain appeared with El Porvenir, the first anarchist newspaper.

Memberships

When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

literature

  • George Woodcock : Anarchism: a history of libertarian ideas and movements . University of Toronto Press, 2004. Page 299. ISBN 1551116294
  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography. Spanish
  2. ^ Ingrid Elizabeth Fey, Karen Racine: Strange pilgrimages ; P. 43
  3. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Sagra, Ramon de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish sociologist, economist, botanist and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH A Coruña
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1871
Place of death Neuchâtel (city)