Spanish intellectual, thinker, educator and art critic born in Ronda, Malaga, leader of the liberal pedagogical trend known as Krausismo. Son of public treasury official Francisco Giner de la Fuente and Bernarda de los Ríos Rosas, he was educated in Sevilla and Cádiz and earned a bachelor's degree in Alicante. He studied at the Universidad de Barcelona, where he was a disciple of professor LLorens and completed law, philosophy and letters at the University of Granada. In Granada he also developed his taste for painting and music and collaborated with the magazine Meridional, where he published his first literary and political articles. He moved to Madrid (1863), following an invitation from his uncle and deputy Ríos Rosas, to take up a job in the diplomatic corps. In the Spanish capital, he did his doctorate in law at the Universidad Central, during which he met and became friends with the master Sanz del Río, main representative in Spain of the Krausist doctrine and thus became a supporter of the liberal ideas of the great German jurist Karl Krause.
Appointed professor of the Chair of Philosophy of Law and International Law at the University of Madrid (1866), he attacked the clergy's interference in education and, therefore, he was fired and imprisoned (1867) together with his friend del Río, at the behest of the minister Isabelin Marqués de Orovio, a radical defender of the church's direct intervention in education public. With the revolution (1868) that dethroned Isabel II, her chair was restored and, from then on, she developed a new and intense teaching activity. With the return to power of the minister Orovio (1875) appointed by Alfonso XII, he was forced to resign from his chair and was imprisoned in Cádiz. Liberated (1876), the fearless educator decided to invest in the creation project of the Universidad Libre de Andalucía, in Gibraltar.
He associated himself with other like-minded professors, and founded (1876) the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, for which he designed an education system independent of church and state, covering all the levels. In subsequent years, he wrote important works in the field of education, such as Institución libre de enseñanza (1884) and Pedagogía universitaria (1905) and died in Navacerrada, Madrid. In Latin America, the strong influence of undeniable elements of the Krausist pedagogy in the beginning of the 20th century was felt, of this venerable Spanish figure and his group, particularly Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico.
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