José María Vigil

He is known also for establishing a new library and teaching literature, an editor for different newspaper companies, and a professor at different universities.

In 1861 he was senior officer of the Secretary of the Congress, and during his administration he organized the State Public Library.

During the French intervention, he was exiled to the United States and while he was there he published articles supporting the national cause in the newspaper "El Nuevo Mundo."

Vigil did many things for this public library like organizing and classifying a large amount of funds and volumes.

Under his leadership, in 1884, he opened the public service in the Hall Mayor and created the Mexican Bibliographic Institute in 1899.