Cecilio Acosta

Cecilio Juan Ramón del Carmen Acosta Revete (1 February 1818 – 8 July 1881), was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, lawyer, philosopher and humanist.

Career Acosta was born in 1818 in a small village known as San Diego de los Altos. Acosta is the son of Ignacio Acosta and Juana Margarita Revete Martínez. He was baptized by the priest Mariano Fernández Fortique, later Bishop of Guayana and one of Acosta's main mentors. His early education comes from this priest. In 1831 he entered the seminary Tridentino of Santa Rosa in Caracas and began his training to become a priest. In 1840, he leaves the seminary and enters the Academy of Mathematics, where he became a surveyor. Later on, Acosta studied philosophy and law at the Central University of Venezuela, receiving his law degree. Around 1846 and 1847, he began publishing essays in newspapers, such as, La Epoca and El Centinela de la Patria.

Cecilio Acosta has become, in Venezuela, one of the most remembered characters and intellectuals of the 19th century. This is due to his intellectual work in different areas of knowledge (such as law, sociology, history and lexicography) and his ethical and stoic attitude towards the continuous abuses of authoritarianism and personalism, as styles of politics during the consolidation phase of the Venezuelan national state and even afterwards.

As a liberal politician, he spent years in internal exile under the dictatorship of the military Antonio Guzmán Blanco. He later died on 8 July 1881. Since 1937, his remains have been located at the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

There was a commemoration of the centenary of the death of Acosta in 1981.

Honors

Catholic University Cecilio Acosta, a private university, was named after him. It was founded in 1983 in the city of Maracaibo.

Work Acosta wrote about politics, jurisprudence, economics, history, obituaries, literature, philology, poetry and epistolary.

He maintained the idea of modernizing the education system from a decentralizing vision, that incorporated new disciplines of knowledge that should be accompanied by the practice of the workshop as a key word for the progress of the country and that Acosta calls him the 'true lord of a new civilization'.

“Reforma de las Leyes II y III del Código de Instrucción Pública (1847); “Cosas sabidas y Cosas por saberse” (1856) “Revista de Europa y de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica” (1879). Known things and knowing (1856). Original title, Cosas sabidas y cosas por saberse. Charity or fruits of the cooperation of all to the well of all (1855). Original title, Caridad o frutos de la cooperación de todos al bien de todos. Studies of International Law (1917) Influence of the historical-political elements in the dramatic literature and in the novel (posthumous, 1887) Complete works (1908–1909) Complete works (Fundación La Casa de Bello, Definite, 1981)