Eugenio María de Hostos - San Juan, Puerto Rico
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A bust of Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, novelist, and advocate for Puerto Rican independence is located amid the arbor in Plaza Eugenio María de Hostos along Calle Tizol by the waterfront in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Location: Puerto Rico
Date Posted: 09/05/2017
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A bronze bust of Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla depicts the writer from the neck up. Eugenio María de Hostos is wearing a large mustache and beard. He has a receding hairline which is combed straight back. The bust rests on a 6' high three-part oval limestone base. The center part is plain rectangle which is flanked by a pair of fluted piasters with decorative bands near the top.
A bronze plaque on the rectangular section of the base is inscribed:
A EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS
EN COMMEMORACION AL
CENTENARIO DE SU NACIMIENTO
ENERO 11 DE 1839 - 1939
EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS
IN COMMEMORATION TO
CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
JANUARY 11, 1839-1939
Eugenio María de Hostos was born Mayagüez, Puerto Rico into a wealthy family. He was educated in away from home at San Juan at the Liceo de San Juan, at Bilbao, Spain at the Institute of Secondary Education, and Madrid, Spain at Complutense University of Madrid where he studied law, philosophy and letters.
In 1863 when he was 24 years old, he wrote La Peregrinación de Bayoán (The Pilgrimage of a Bayoán), a romantic novel with social and political themes written in diary form. In 1869, when Spain refused to grant Puerto Rico its independence, Eugenio María de Hostos left for United States where advocated for the independence of Puerto Rico and Cuba.In 1875, Hostos went to the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and founded the first Teachers College.
Wikipedia lists the following sample of books written by Eugenio María de Hostos.
La Peregrinación de Bayoán (1863)
Las doctrinas y los hombres (1866)
El día de América
Ayacucho (1870)
El cholo (1870)
La educación científica de la mujer (1873)
Lecciones de derecho constitucional. Santo Domingo: Cuna de América (1887)
Moral Social (1888)
Geografía evolutiva (1895)