Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón (June 17, 1903 – August 10, 1983) was a Dominican essayist, historian, physician,

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, educator and politician.

Biography

Born to José Manuel Jimenes Domínguez (son of

Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra (November 15, 1846 – May 9, 1919) was a Dominican Republic political figure. He served as the president of the Dominican Republic between 15 November 1899 and 2 May 1902, and again between 5 December 1914 and 7 May ...

and María Josefa de los Santos Domínguez Gómez) and María Filomena Grullón Ricardo. Jimenes completed his primary and secondary education in

Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Na ...

, receiving a Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Santo Domingo, but his passion for philosophy made him abandon this course. Pressured by his family, he left for Paris (1923) to study medicine. In 1929 he received his medical degree and returned to Santo Domingo the following year. In 1934, Jimenes was discovered plotting against the dictator

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( ; ; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (; "the boss"), was a Dominican military officer and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961 ...

and was imprisoned and then exiled in 1935. While in exile, his priority remained to dethrone Trujillo's regime. He lived in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, the United States and

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where he remained in exile for twenty-six years while he continued to fight the tyranny of Trujillo. In 1941 while still in Cuba, he and other Dominican exiles on the island, founded the

Dominican Revolutionary Party The Dominican Revolutionary Party (, PRD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature, the party has shifted since the 2000s toward the political centre. The party's dist ...

and the Dominican Patriotic Alliance. He participated in the failed expedition of Constanza, Maimon and Estero Hondo in 1959. Six months after Trujillo's assassination he returned to his country and immediately integrated into national policy. In 1962, Jimenes was a candidate for the Presidency with the Social Democratic Alliance party. He also taught history and sociology at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. He published twenty books in the fields of sociology, philosophy, history and literature. His works include the Dominican Republic: a fiction, Pedro Henríquez Ureña : Reality and Myth, Our fake left and the myth of the founding fathers, and polemicist and reflect the rebellious spirit that characterized most of his essay production. He died in Santo Domingo on August 10, 1983.

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