Pedro Francisco Bonó

Pedro Francisco Bonó y Mejía (October 18, 1828 – September 13, 1906) was a Dominican politician, sociologist and intellectual. He is credited with being the first Dominican sociologist. He was the president of the Senate of the Dominican Republic in 1858.[1]

Pedro Francisco Bonó
Bust of Pedro Francisco Bonó in Parque Independencia, Santo Domingo
BornPedro Francisco Bonó y Mejía
(1828-10-18)18 October 1828
Saint-Yague, Haiti (now Santiago, Dominican Republic)
Died14 September 1906(1906-09-14) (aged 77)
San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
NationalityDominican

Bonó was born in 1828, to Joseph Bonó (a ranchman and trader of Italian origin) and Inés Mejía y Port. His maternal grandmother, Doña Eugénie Port, a native of Brittany (North-Western France) who had large plantations and fortune in the Saint-Domingue until the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution, taught him the French language and fashioned him intellectually.[2]

A metro station in Santo Domingo is named after him.

Publications

  • El Montero (1856)
  • Apuntes para los Cuatro Ministerios de la República (1857)
  • Apuntes sobre las Clases Trabajadoras Dominicanas (1881)
  • Congreso Extraparlamentario (1895)
  • Epistolario
  • Ensayos Sociohistóricos
  • Actuación Pública
  • Papeles de Pedro Francisco Bonó (Works collected by Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, 1963)

References

  1. Tejada, Adriano Miquel (12 May 1990). "Manual del legislador Dominicano". Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.
  2. GUERRERO SÁNCHEZ, José Guillermo (July–December 2006). "Bonó: Precursor de la Historia Social Dominicana" (pdf). Clío (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Academia Dominicana de la Historia (172): 180, 200. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
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