José Baquíjano y Carrillo, Count of Vistaflorida

Who was José Baquíjano y Carrillo, Count of Vistaflorida?

José Javier de Baquíjano y Carrillo de Córdoba, the III Count of Vistaflorida was a Spanish/Peruvian economist and jurist, writer and politician, and one of the first great intellectuals of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Baquíjano earned a doctorate in law from the University of San Marcos in Lima. In 1773-76 he traveled to Spain, where he met Pablo de Olavide and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. Upon his return to Peru, he took on the task of protector of the Indigenous, and became a professor of law.