Alberto Masferrer

Vicente Alberto Masferrer Mnico, known as Alberto Masferrer, was a Salvadoran essayist, philosopher, fiction writer, and journalist, best known for the development of the philosophy of vitalismo. He was born in Alegra, Usulutn formerly Tecape, Usulutn onJuly 1868. He did not receive a formal education, instead claiming to have been educated by the university of life, but he did travel widely, having lived in several Central American countries, as well as in Chile, New York, and several European nations. During his public career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, he served as an ambassador of El Salvador in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Belgium, and served as a professor in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Chile, and Argentina. Having served in the government of President Arturo Araujo, he was sent into exile in Honduras by the dictatorship of Maximiliano Hernndez Martnez following the uprising of 1932 known as the 1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre, d

Alberto Masferrer was born in a town in eastern El Salvador, pipil home and subsequently dominated by the Lenca. The home he was born in was owned by the Mejia family and is now a small museum. His education was selfeducation in combination with formal education. His love of reading led him to choose teaching as a career. In this regard, Arturo Ambrogi stated that I have rarely seen a lecturer as tremendous as Alberto.

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