Gabino Barreda

Gabino Barreda (1818, Puebla – 1881, Mexico City) was a Mexican physician, philosopher and politician oriented to French positivism. He served in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. After participating in the Mexican–American War defending his country as a volunteer, he studied medicine in Paris (1847–51). There he became acquainted with Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism, before his first publications in philosophy. Upon returning to Mexico City, he introduced the positivistic scho...