Ignacio Alcocer

Vocation

Mexican doctor and politician. During his youth made preparatory studies in his hometown, he studied medicine at the Sorbonne in Paris. He also lived two years in Italy perfecting his medical studies and making art studios. He returned to Mexico where he received his medical degree from the School of Medicine of San Luis Potosi. He devoted 10 years to the exercise of their profession in the city of Saltillo. It exerted teaching as Professor of Physics, Chemistry, Natural History, psychology and logic at the Ateneo Fuente, being master of Vito Alessio Robles, Miguel Alessio Robles, Artemio de Valle Arizpe and Manuel Perez Trevino (founder and president of the National Revolutionary Party). He held various public posts as a member of the city council of the city of Saltillo, a Member of Congress, provisional governor of Coahuila, was appointed by the Senate and Minister in the Ministry of the Interior for Victoriano Huerta. Part of his life was devoted to the research and study of the Nahuatl language and pre-Columbian cultures. Reliefs discovered in 1929 in the forest of Chapultepec. He wrote several books. In his book Notes on the old Mexico-Tenochtitlan correctly located the spaces occupied Axayácatl Palace and the house of Cuauhtemoc. He was a professor of Athenian Source. He died in poverty on 2 May 1936. Link to Wikipedia biography (Spanish)