Aníbal Ponce

Aníbal Norberto Ponce (6 June 1898 – 18 May 1938), was an Argentine psychologist, sociologist, professor and political activist.

Biography In his youth, Ponce studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (National College), then at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Humanities of the University of Buenos Aires. He also studied medicine for several years. From 1918 he was an active participant, and then a leader of the Movement for University Reform. In 1920 he met José Ingenieros, with whom he would co-direct the Revista de Filosofía, taking charge of the management when Ingenieros died in 1925.

In 1930 he founded the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores, in whose publication Courses and Conferences, "Education and Class Struggle", a fundamental work, appeared in several numbers in 1934. In those years he began to be an activist in the Communist Party of Argentina and visited the Soviet Union. In 1935 he founded the Association of Intellectuals, Artists, Journalists and Writers (AIAPE), of which he was the first president.

Ponce held chairs of Psychology in several houses of higher studies in Argentina. In 1936, when his figure was in full growth, he was dismissed from his position because of his adherence to Marxism and his active anti-fascist militancy.

Works

Ambición y angustia en los adolescentes La vejez de Sarmiento Condiciones para la universidad libre Humanismo burgués y humanismo proletario: de Erasmo a Romain Rolland Educación y lucha de clases Estudios de Psicología