Antenor Orrego

Antenor Orrego Espinoza (22 May 1892 – 17 July 1960) was a Peruvian writer and political philosopher[1] of Basque ancestry. He was a member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). The Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (Antenor Orrego Private University), founded in Trujillo, Peru in 1988, is named after him.[2]

Antenor Orrego
Born	May 22, 1892 Lajas, Cajamarca, Peru
Died	July 17, 1960 (aged 68) Lima, Peru
Nationality	Peruvian
Alma mater	National University of Trujillo
Occupation	Philosopher, politician and journalist

Antenor Orrego was born in 1892 to José Asunción Orrego and Victoria Espinoza Villanueva in the Chota Province in the Department of Cajamarca in Peru. He died in Lima, Peru in 1960.[3]

See also

• North Group

References

1. Jussi Pakkasvirta (January 1997). "Nationalism and Continentalism in Latin American History". University of Helsinki. Antenor Orrego, a Peruvian philosopher, went back to the indigenous past. He argued, this time against arielism, that European traditions in Latin America have been even more destructive for the well-being of the continent than US imperialism. Orrego rejected 'intellectual Eurocentrism' by emphasizing that European decadence and vices have to be replaced by 'authentic americanism', which is not only indigenismo but also a synthesis of different continental (non-European) cultural and intellectual elements.
2. Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego Archived 12 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine website.
3. Antenor Orrego, 1892–1960: El amauta del humanismo indoamericano Archived 1 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Biography Archived 1 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine) (in Spanish).