JUAN BAUTISTA ALBERDI

In the present 25 de Mayo Street in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, opposite Plaza Independencia, Juan Bautista Alberdi was born on August 29, 1810.

In 1825, President Rivadavia created scholarships for the two best students of each province and Juan Bautista got one of them in Tucumán. He went to Buenos Aires all by himself and was not able to get a doctor's degree in Jurisprudence because he had to leave the country harassed by Rosas's supporters.

Being in Chile, he wrote several works. The piece which made the greatest impact was Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Organización Política de la República Argentina (1852), (Baselines and Points of Departure for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic), and among other titles is El crimen de la guerra (The Crime of War).

Embittered and disheartened about the senseless politicians of his period, he set out to Europe for good, dying in Paris, on June 18, 1884.