Biography of Justinian I… Gabriel García Moreno… Wilhelm Wundt… Valentin Gomez Farias…

Biography of Justinian I

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Justinian I
Byzantine Emperor (527-565)

He was born in Illyria in the bosom of a family of humble origin, and was educated in Constantinople. He was appointed consul and associated to the throne by his uncle Justino I. In the year 518 was administrator of the Emperor Justin, who appointed him his successor. He married Theodora, (523) former dancer of circus and prostitute, his father had been custodian of wild animals in the Amphitheatre of Constantinople. Justinian from a narrow group of collaborators including Triboniano or Belisario surrounded himself. Upon the death of Justin in the year 527 was elected Emperor. Thanks to the accounts of Procopio we know the wishes of Justinian reach the splendor of Imperial Rome, reason why did the wide range of foreign campaigns. He began a policy aimed at the restoration of the Roman Empire, whose part of the West had been lost with the invasions of barbarian peoples in the 5th century. The eastern frontier of the Empire was secured by the eternal peace signed with Persia in the year 532. An imperial army began the March in the year 533 against the Kingdom vandal North Africa, reinstating this area to the Empire in 534. Another army attacked, in the year following, the Ostrogoths in Italy; they resisted for twenty years. A third military campaign against the Visigoths, reconquered the southeast of the Iberian peninsula. The Empire required a uniform legal system. An imperial Commission, chaired by jurist Triboniano, worked ten years to compile and systematize the Roman law. His work, known as the Justinian Code and issued in 534, joined the huge Corpus Iuris Civilis (body of civil law); in all the constitutions of the Roman emperors gathered from Hadrian (117-138 A.d.) until the date of its publication; and it was updated by adding new laws or Novellae. The other two parties that made up the Corpus were the digest or Pandects and the institutions, Handbook for law students. This encoding is still the legislative basis in many countries in Europe. It has accelerated the sacred authority of the Emperor, link between God and the people he was committed. This imperial autocracy was manifested in a sumptuous ceremony, heir of Roman splendor that was added East pump (Persian). Under the reign of Justinian I, was developed known as the 'first golden age of Byzantine art', which manifests itself in the churches of St. Sophia and St. Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), as well as in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna (Italy). He died in Constantinople.

Biography of Gabriel García Moreno

(1821/12/24 - 1875/08/06)

Gabriel García Moreno
Ecuadorian politician, President of the Republic (1861-1865, 1869-1875)

He was born on December 24, 1821 in Guayaquil (Ecuador). He was the eighth son Gabriel García Gómez, Spanish who was Procurator Syndic of Guayaquil, and Mercedes Moreno, Moreno Cardinal, Primate of Toledo's aunt.
He studied law at the University of Quito, which became rector in 1857. In 1859 he was in command of the rebellion that ended with the Government of President Francisco Robles. He was a member of the triumvirate that governed the country until 1861, year in which was elected President for a term of four years.
Construction of roads and educational reform programs he established during his regime and filled the country's economy. It fought to turn Ecuador into a prominent theocratic State by signing a Concordat with the Vatican, by which the Catholic Church enjoyed in the country of a power and privileges never reached previously in 1862.
In 1869, walked away from power the President Javier Espinosa (1867-1869), whom he had imposed (similar to his predecessor, Jerónimo Carrión), and returned to assume the position officially.
On August 6, 1875 Gabriel García Moreno was killed with machetes in Quito by a group of liberal conspirators at the beginning of his third term as President.

Biography of Wilhelm Wundt

(1832/08/16 - 1920/08/31)

Wilhelm Wundt
German psychologist

He was born on August 16, 1832 in Neckarau, near Mannheim in the German Principality of Baden.
Son of a Lutheran pastor, one of his major influences was his maternal grandfather, who had a great interest in his education and took him to frequent trips and tours.
With 8 years income to the local Catholic Gymnasium (high school with high academic requirements), however was deficient in its academic activity and will advise you to abandon the formal studies; He was transferred to the Gymanasium of Heidelberg, where he was more successful and he graduated in 1851. He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg and at the Berlin Institute of Physiology.
He was Professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg (1858-1874), more afternoon gave inductive philosophy in Zurich (1874-1875). From 1875 to 1917 was Professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He presented the first academic psychology in 1862 and founded the first laboratory of Experimental Psychology in 1879.
Popularizer of what is known as introspective psychology and structuralist, which emphasizes the observation of the conscious mind and gives less importance to the inference from the external behavior. He carried out extensive experimental work on perception, feeling, and the apperception.
With more than 500 publications, highlights fundamentals of physiological psychology (1873-1874) and the monumental work psychology of peoples (10 volumes, 1900-1904). Also wrote three major philosophical treatises: logic (1880), ethics (1886) and system of philosophy (1889).
Wilhelm Wundt Grossbothen, Germany, died on August 31, 1920.

Biography of Valentin Gomez Farias

(1781/02/14 - 1858/07/05)

Valentín Gómez Farías
Mexican politician, provisional President of the Republic (1833-1834; 1846-1847)

He was born on February 14, 1781 in Guadalajara.
He studied medicine. As his career in Aguascalientes and was Alderman of the Town Hall.
Gómez Farías was a politician of liberal ideas, Deputy in the Spanish Cádiz Cortes (1812), subsequently adhere to the Plan of Iguala (1821), being liberal Deputy to the Constituent Congress (1822). It gave its support to the Empire of Agustín de Iturbide although confronted him when he dissolved Congress. In favor of the Plan de Casa Mata and the establishment of the first Republic.
Minister of finance with Gómez Pedraza (1833). Elected Vice President of the Republic, temporarily assumed the Presidency in 1833 in the absence of President Antonio López de Santa Anna. He held liberal reforms such as freedom of the press and the abolition of the fueros and ecclesiastical privileges. He led the first Liberal reformprocess, it abolished the death penalty, created the Directorate of public instruction and decreed the establishment of the national library.
The return of Santa Anna, it forced him into exile, although he returned in 1838. In the U.S. invasion, she resumed the Vice-Presidency in 1846. In 1847, when Santa Anna fought in Texas United States, he left the Presidency when triumphs the revolt of the Jacobin Liberals.
In 1855 he was President of the Board of representatives of the Plan of Ayutla and the following year chaired the Constituent Congress, where he was Deputy for Jalisco.
Valentín Gómez Farías died in the City of Mexico, on July 5, 1858, from a heart ailment. He was buried in the vanished pantheon of Santa Paula.