Ignacio Ramírez

Politician

1818 – 1879

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Who was Ignacio Ramírez?

Juan Ignacio Paulino Ramírez Calzada was a Mexican writer, poet, journalist, lawyer, atheist, and political libertarian from San Miguel de Allende who used the pen name, El Nigromante. He defended the rights of Indians. He was known as, “The Mexican Voltaire” and worked with Guillermo Prieto to start the satirical periodical, Don Simplicio.

He began his studies in Querétaro, birth city of his father, and in 1835 was taken to the Colegio de San Gregorio in Mexico City, where he studied arts. In 1841 he began studies and in 1845 obtained a law degree at the Pontifical University of Mexico. He was admitted at age 19 in the Literary Academy of St. John Lateran, composed of the most enlightened men of the time. Ramirez is famous in Mexico's literary annals for his reading a speech at the Academy on a topic so controversial that had the effect of a dynamite explosion: he opined that there is no God - the creatures of nature are sustained by themselves

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Born
Jun 22, 1818
San Miguel de Allende
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • Mexico
Died
Jun 15, 1879
Mexico City

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on July 23, 2013

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