Pedro Goyena

Pedro Goyena Pedro Goyena (July 24, 1843, Buenos Aires – May 17, 1892) was an Argentine jurist, politician and writer.

Pedro Goyena, along with other thinkers and politicians, followers of the ''Catholic Thinking'', as José Manuel Estrada and Emilio Lamarca. He completed his studies at the Colegio Nacional Central, then to the University to get a Law Degree. He made a mark in Argentine politics with his strong opposition to laicity, which characterized the Generation of '80 that governed the country in the second half of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th. He served a term as a member of the Buenos Aires Province Senate.

He had a strong impact in the Pedagogical Congress of 1882 where he maintained the position that public education had to be Catholic having a strong argument with Leandro Alem. He opposed Public Education Law #1420 of 1884, that established schooling for children being free, secular, and mandatory. He also opposed and represented the position of the Catholic thinkers against the Law of Civil matrimony of 1888, maintaining that the only type of marriage allowed should be the one performed and recognized by the Catholic Church. He was noted as a good orator.

Goyena taught Roman law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and also worked as a journalist, writing among others for ''Revista Argentina'' and ''La Unión'', which he also edited with Estrada and Tristán Achával Rodríguez, where he defended his opposition to the liberal reforms of the government of the time, whose principal exponent was President Julio A. Roca.

In 1885 he was appointed First Vice president of the ''Catholic Union'', presided by José Manuel Estrada.

Shortly before his death, and carried by his opposition to secular liberalism, he joined the heterogeneous opposition represented by the Unión Cívica.

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    Crítica literaria / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1917
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    Obra selecta / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

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    Crítica literaria / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1937
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    Literatura y oratoria argentinas / by Goyena, Pedro 1843-1892

    Published 1944
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    Crítica literaria / by Goyena, Pedro 1843-1892

    Published 1937
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    D. Félix Frías / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1884
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    Crítica literaria / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1968
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    Crítica literaria / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1917
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    Discursos sobre la enseñanza religiosa / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1883
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    Literatura y oratoria argentinas / by Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892

    Published 1947
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    Discursos / by Fernández, Domingo

    Published 1885
    Other Authors: “…Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892…”
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    La politica liberal bajo la tiranía de Rosas / by Estrada, José Manuel, 1842-1894

    Published 1947
    Other Authors: “…Goyena, Pedro, 1843-1892…”
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