Ignacio Ramírez
| Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante" | |
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| Born | Ignacio Ramírez Calzada 22 June 1818 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
| Died | 15 June 1879 (aged 60) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Writer, lawyer, poet |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Literary movement | Satire, libertarianism |
Juan Ignacio Paulino Ramírez Calzada, known as Ignacio Ramírez, (22 June 1818 - 15 June 1879) was a Mexican writer, poet, journalist, lawyer, atheist, and political libertarian from San Miguel de Allende, then called San Miguel el Grande. His father had been a prominent federalist politician. In writings, Ramírez used the pen name, El Nigromante (The Necromancer). He defended the rights of Indians. Ramírez worked with Guillermo Prieto to start the satirical periodical, Don Simplicio. Ramírez is considered a member of the "'romantic generation' of Mexican liberals" coinciding with the Liberal Reform; others were Ponciano Arriaga, Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Melchor Ocampo, and Guillermo Prieto.
Ramírez was born in San Miguel de Allende on 22 June 1818, the son of José Lino Ramírez and Ana María Guadalupe Sinforosa Calzada Ramírez. He began his studies in Querétaro, birth city of his father, and in 1835 was taken to the Colegio de San Gregorio in Mexico City, where he studied arts. In 1841 he began studies and in 1845 obtained a law degree at the Pontifical University of Mexico. He was admitted at age nineteen to the literary Academy of San Juan de Letrán, composed of the most enlightened men of the time.
According to the website of the Mexican government, “He was persecuted and imprisoned for his ideas, but managed to promote various changes to the law, such as that guaranteeing the autonomy of the municipality. He was named Minister for Instruction and Promotion, instituting important educational and economic reforms. During the reign of the Emperor Maximilian, he was banished to California, but on his return from San Francisco to the Republic following the ousting of the French, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Justice as a magistrate.
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