Eugenio María de Hostos
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto Rican independence advocate. == Early years and family == Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla was born on January 11, 1839, to a well-to-do family in the Barrio Río Cañas of Mayagüez, Captaincy General of Puerto Rico (present-day Puerto Rico).