Ramón de la Sagra facts for kids
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Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris
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Portrait of Ramón de la Sagra
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| Born | 8 April 1798 A Coruña, Spain
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| Died | 23 May 1871 (aged 73) Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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| Nationality | Galician |
| Occupation | botanist, writer, sociologist, economist, politician |
| Known for | founding the world's first anarchist journal El Porvenir |
Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (born April 8, 1798 – died May 23, 1871) was a Spanish scientist, writer, and politician. He was known for starting the world's first anarchist newspaper, El Porvenir, which means "The Future" in Spanish. He was also a botanist, studying plants and their uses.
Biography
Ramón de la Sagra was born on April 8, 1798, in A Coruña, Spain. His family was wealthy from trading with Spanish colonies in America.
He studied physics for a year at a nautical school. Then, he went to a military college. Later, he studied anatomy, medicine, and math at a university. There, he began sharing ideas about freedom and change. Because of this, he was threatened by the Inquisition, a powerful religious court. He then moved to the University of Madrid.
In 1821, Ramón de la Sagra moved to Cuba. A year later, he became a professor of Natural History in Cuba. He married Manuela Turnes del Rìo in 1822. For the next ten years, he traveled around the Americas.
In 1835, he settled in Paris, France. He visited the United States in 1835. The next year, he wrote a book about his experiences there. He also collected many reports on science and money during his travels.
In Paris, he became a follower of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a famous thinker. Ramón de la Sagra returned to Spain in 1837. He was elected to parliament four times, representing the Liberal Party.
He also started writing a thirteen-volume history of Cuba. This huge work covered Cuba's politics and nature. He finished it in 1857. In 1845, he started El Porvenir, the world's first anarchist newspaper. However, it was soon shut down by the government.
After the French Revolution of 1848, he worked with Proudhon to create the Peoples' Bank of France. This bank aimed to help ordinary people. In 1849, he was forced to leave France for sharing socialist ideas. In 1856, he was also expelled from Spain for his radical views.
In Paris, he met famous thinkers like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He also worked as a consul for Uruguay there. He visited Cuba again between 1859 and 1860. During this time, he wrote many studies and essays. When the Franco-Prussian War started in 1870, he moved to Switzerland. He died there on May 23, 1871, at age seventy-three.
Legacy
Ramón de la Sagra is remembered in the names of some animals and plants. Two types of Cuban lizards are named after him: Anolis sagrei and Diploglossus delasagra.
Also, in 1828, a botanist named a group of flowering plants from the Caribbean Sagraea in his honor. These plants belong to the family Melastomataceae. Later, in 1862, another scientist named a group of lichenized fungi Ramonia after him.
See also
In Spanish: Ramón de la Sagra para niños
