Ignacio RamÃrez
Juan Ignacio Paulino Ramírez Calzada ( born June 22, 1818 in San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato; † June 15, 1879 ) was a liberal reformist politicians in Mexico.
He came from an indigenous intellectual elite and was known as " El Nigromante ". The polymath belonged as an educator, journalist, minister of justice, constitutional lawyer, poet and playwright in several fields of activity of the leading exponents of his time. As Education Minister, he argued for the suppression of the influence of the Church from the education policy.
Life
1835 Ignacio Ramírez began studying art and law at the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán, then moved to Santiago de Querétaro and Mexico City. In 1845 he founded the Reform newspaper " Don Simplicio " in Mexico City, and a year later the club Popular, who saw himself obliged to repel the U.S. invasion. After his 1848 graduation, he performed worked for a law firm in Toluca, until he was appointed prefect in Tlaxcala in the same year. Four years later in 1852 became Ignacio Ramirez as Vice Governor of Sinaloa.
The dictator Antonio Antonio López de Santa Anna was imprisoning him in 1853 and Ignacio Ramirez was only released in the fall of 1855. Under the Indian president Benito Juárez in 1861, he received the Department of Justice and the Ministry of Education and created in this function, the National Library, and drove the expansion of the university forward. Despite its setting panlatinistischen he led the fight against the French invasion, as a journalist, to. That's why he fled then 1864 in the United States. However, he was arrested in Veracruz after the withdrawal of the French, shortly before the fall of Emperor Maximilian I..
Ignacio Ramirez was released in 1867 and appointed to the Supreme Court, but arrested again after strong criticism of Juarez ' re-election and whose dictatorial administration. From the new President Porfirio Díaz, he was reappointed as Minister of Justice in 1876 and appointed to the Supreme Court.