Wenceslao Escalante
Wenceslao Escalante (born September 28, 1852 in Santa Fe , † 1912 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine minister and professor of law.
Life
Escalante's family settled in Buenos Aires in 1860, where he also studied. Until 1881 he headed the Banco Hipotecario Nacional (National Mortgage Bank) and was then director of the Banco de la Nación Argentina (National Bank of Argentina). Escalante was part of the "Generation 80", an economic structure that raised Argentina's profile as an agricultural export country and strengthened capitalism.
In 1882 he presented the Comisión Directiva del Congreso Pedagógico ( Conference of Directors of the Pedagogical Congress ) with a working paper entitled Educación de la Voluntad (Education of the Will). From 1884 he was a professor at the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires .
In 1887, Escalante became an MP for the Province of Buenos Aires . During his tenure as Minister of Agriculture in the government of President Julio Argentino Roca , he introduced the so-called Land Law, which aimed to increase productivity in the agricultural sector. During his tenure, he founded the College of Agricultural and Veterinary Medicine in 1901, which became a faculty at the University of Buenos Aires on August 19, 1904.
In the province of Cordoba , a village, Wenceslao Escalante, was named after him. In Santa Fe, where Escalante owned wasteland, a neighboring town, a school and two clubs are named after him.
Web links
- Discursos como dipuado nacional (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Escalante, Wenceslao |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine Minister of Agriculture and Professor of Law |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Fe |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1912 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |