Ramiro Villaseñor y Villaseñor

Ramiro Villaseñor y Villaseñor (25 April 1911 – 9 April 1991 ), was a Mexican bibliographer and historian.

Biography His parents were engineer–architect and lawyer Arnulfo Villaseñor Carrillo and Carmen Leonor Villaseñor. He studied Elementary School in Guadalajara. His subsequent training was obtained in a self-taught way, since he did not continue with high school studies or finish the commerce studies that he had begun.

He inherited much of his father's personal library. The spontaneous researcher in archives and libraries, from a young age began to frequent gatherings in cafes and to visit the Public Library of the State of Jalisco, located since 1918 at Calle Liceo 60, and then at Calle González Ortega 679, north of downtown Guadalajara. He toured the city of Guadalajara on foot, talked to the inhabitants, visited inns and street food stalls.

As a young man he read numerous books, including some Latin classics; also, Historia particular del estado de Jalisco (Particular History of the State of Jalisco), by , Análisis de la Reforma (Analysis of the Reform), by , as well as the works by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Some of his works Bibliografía de José López Portillo y Rojas, 1950 (Bibliography of José López Portillo y Rojas) Bibliografía del Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara, 1955 (Bibliography of the City Council of Guadalajara) Bibliografía general de Jalisco, 1958 (General bibliography of Jalisco) Historia de las fuentes de Guadalajara, 1970 (History of the fountains of Guadalajara) Ignacio Cumplido. Impresor y editor jalisciense del federalismo en México, 1974 (Urbano Sanromán. First editor of Guadalajara and federalism. Bibliographic study of his printing press) Bibliografía de discursos, informes y memorias de los gobernadores del estado de Jalisco, 1978 (Epigraphy of the Panteón de Belén) Las calles históricas de Guadalajara, 1986 (The historic streets of Guadalajara)