Pedro Goyena
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Pedro Goyena (July 24, 1843, Buenos Aires – May 17, 1892) was an Argentine jurist, politician and writer.
Pedro Goyena, along with other thinkers and politicians, followers of the Catholic Thinking, as
laicity, which characterized the Generation of '80 that governed the country in the second half of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th. He served a term as a member of the Buenos Aires Province Senate
.
He had a strong impact in the Pedagogical Congress of 1882 where he maintained the position that public education had to be
Catholic having a strong argument with Leandro Alem. He opposed Public Education Law #1420 of 1884, that established schooling for children being free, secular, and mandatory. He also opposed and represented the position of the Catholic thinkers against the Law of Civil matrimony of 1888, maintaining that the only type of marriage allowed should be the one performed and recognized by the Catholic Church. He was noted[by whom?] as a good orator
.
Goyena taught
Julio A. Roca
.
In 1885 he was appointed First Vice president of the Catholic Union, presided by José Manuel Estrada.[1]
Shortly before his death, and carried by his opposition to secular liberalism, he joined the heterogeneous opposition represented by the Unión Cívica.
A street in the
barrio of Caballito in Buenos Aires
is named after him.
References
- ^ (in Spanish) La democracia cristiana argentina Archived 2008-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
- Corbiere, Emilio J. "Liberales y católicos en el 80". Todo es Historia. 1980 (163).
- Cosmelli Ibañez, José Luis (1975). Historia cultural de los argentinos. Buenos Aires: Troquel.
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