Francisco Giner de los Ríos (10 October 1839 in

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– 18 February 1915 in

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) was a philosopher, educator, and one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

Biography

He studied philosophy in Barcelona and Granada and eventually became professor of the philosophy of law and of international law at the University of Madrid. He was strongly influenced by the ideas of the Kantian German philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (as imported into Spain by Julián Sanz del Río) and became an important exponent of " Krausismo" in Spain. He openly criticized the government for its attempts to stifle academic freedom. As a consequence, in 1875, he lost his chair at the university, which led to what can be seen as his major achievement: the 1876 foundation of the ''

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'' (Institute of Free Teaching), a private school of higher learning. He dedicated his life to the formation of human beings along coeducation; rationalism; and freedom of teaching, research, and literary communication. The goal was a society in which free citizens would be governed by free citizens on the basis of an adequate education. Because of his "rational realist" approach to law, he can also be seen as one of the forerunners of the

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. Giner continued his work outside the university, even after he was reinstated in his university chair in 1881. Among the many important people who were at one time or another associated with the ''

'' and the related ''

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Francisco Giner de los Ríos. Polymath Virtual Library, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giner De Los Rios, Francisco 1839 births 1915 deaths People from Ronda 20th-century Spanish philosophers 19th-century Spanish philosophers University of Granada alumni

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