Vicente Riva Palacio

For the BRT station, see Vicente Riva Palacio (Mexibús).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Riva Palacio and the second or maternal family name is Guerrero.
Vicente Riva Palacio
Born
Vicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero

October 16, 1832
Mexico City, First Mexican Republic
DiedNovember 22, 1896(1896-11-22) (aged 64)
Madrid, Spain
NationalityMexican
OccupationPolitician

Vicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero better known as Vicente Riva Palacio (16 October 1832 in Mexico City – 22 November 1896 in Madrid) was a Mexican liberal politician, novelist, journalist, intellectual, historian, and military leader.

His father was Mariano Riva Palacio, a moderate liberal, and his mother was María de los Dolores Guerrero Hernández, daughter of independence hero and President of Mexico Vicente Guerrero and María de Guadalupe Hernández.[1][2] Vicente's father worked for the Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in Querétaro during the French intervention in Mexico,[3] but Riva Palacio led forces in defense of the Mexican Republic against the French-backed empire.

He was a mild positivist as he was enthusiast of the nineteenth-century idea of a beneficent material Progress achieved through science.[4] He had a linear conception of history where the ideologically and politically conservatists are equivalent to the forces of decadence and decay and the liberals are the promotors of the vigor and the progress of a country.[5] In respect to the discipline of history he established that this was a philosophical and critical activity which studies the great changes and evolutions of the different human groups.[6]

  1. ^ José Ortiz Monasterio, "Vicente Riva Palacio y Guerrero" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p.1281.
  2. ^ "Vicente Riva Palacio." Bicentenario Independencia. Diccionario Porrúa, Biografía y Geografía de México. n.d. Web. 08 March 2010.
  3. ^ (Bicentenaro par.1)
  4. ^ Ortiz-Delgado, Francisco Miguel (2020). La metafísica de los liberales. La historia y el progreso según Vicente Riva Palacio, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano e Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante". Aguascalientes, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. p. 17. https://www.academia.edu/43274405/Libro_Completo_La_metaf%C3%ADsica_de_los_liberales_Book_The_Metaphysics_of_the_Liberals_History_and_Progress_According_to_Vicente_Riva_Palacio_Ignacio_Manuel_Altamirano_and_Ignacio_Ram%C3%ADrez_El_Nigromante_ ISBN 9786078714520.
  5. ^ "Ortiz-Delgado, Francisco Miguel (2020). La metafísica de los liberales. Aguascalientes, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. pp. 35-37". | ISBN 9786078714520.
  6. ^ "Ortiz-Delgado, Francisco Miguel (2020). La metafísica de los liberales. Aguascalientes, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. pp. 39-41". | ISBN 9786078714520.