Juan David García Bacca

Juan David García Bacca was a Spanish-Venezuelan philosopher and university professor. He was born in Pamplona on June 26, 1901, and passed away on August 5, 1992, in Quito, Ecuador. Bacca began his education under the Claretians and was ordained as a priest in 1925. He continued his studies at the University of Munich, the University of Zurich, and the University of Paris. However, during the 1930s, he left the Church and pursued philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1936 after criticizing Francisco Franco, Bacca was forced to live in exile. He first traveled to Ecuador where he taught at the Central University of Ecuador (1939-1942). While in Ecuador he became close friends with a writer named Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco. He then went to Mexico where he taught at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) from 1942 to 1946. He eventually established himself in Venezuela in 1946 and was granted citizenship in 1952. Bacca was a professor at the Central University of Venezuela until his retirement in 1971. He was recognized for his life's work and was awarded the National Prize for Literature in 1978. Juan David García Bacca was born on June 26, 1901, in Pamplona (Navarra). The premature death of his father, a schoolteacher of Aragonese origin, Juan Isidro García, led him to enter the Seminary of the Claretian Fathers at a very young age, with whom he did his novitiate in Cervera in the course of 1916- 17. In the same Catalan city, Cervera, he studied philosophy and theology (1917–23), to be ordained a Claretian priest (1925) after two years of moral and law studies in Solsona. He will never see his family again, as he confesses on page 11 of his autobiographical work "because of that" for love of Me -Jesus- the believer in Me will leave father, mother "", on page 27 he will say "I I haven't had a childhood." His mother, Martina Bacca Benavides, gave birth to him and three other children, but little more than that comes to us from his confessions; on page 11 he wrote:My mother died [...] in [1922]. [...