Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi was born in Mexico City on 15 November 1776, into the middle class. A journalist, in 1812 he took advantage of the freedom of the press proclaimed by the Cádiz constitution to found El Pensador Mexicano, whose title he took as his pseudonym; his polemical writings brought him several imprisonments. Steeped in the ideas of the Enlightenment, he believed in education and work. In 1822, a pamphlet in defence of the Freemasons got him excommunicated. He died of tuberculosis in Mexico City on 21 June 1827.

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• NovelThe Itching ParrotEl Periquillo SarnientoJoaquín Fernández de Lizardi · 1816LiteraturePublic domain