Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (born 1849)

Francisco Ferrer

19th and 20th-century Catalan anarchist and educationist

Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, widely known as Francisco Ferrer, was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into…