Gabino Barreda

Gabino Barreda (born Puebla, 1818 – died Mexico City 1881) was a Mexican physician, philosopher and politician oriented to French positivism.

Upon returning to Mexico City, he introduced the positivistic school and taught in Guanajuato (1863–67) until the fall of the Maximilian empire.

[1] The commission established the National Preparatory School (Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (ENP)), where he served as director for a decade.

[2] Because Barreda was closely associated with Juárez and his successor following his death, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, the Díaz regime forced him out from the ENP in 1878, to be Mexican ambassador to the German Empire,[3] a prestigious post, but far from the action of Mexican power.

To this day, he is acknowledged as an important figure of education in Mexico, one of the fathers of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the undergraduate medal for the top student of each major's class is named in his honor.