Prieto, Guillermo (1818-1897), was born in Mexico City on February 10, 1818; dies March 2, 1897. Poet. Journalist, speaker, politician, professor, historian and economist. He studied at the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán under the auspices of Andrés Quintana Roo. He published the first verses of his in printed papers and pasted on the doors of churches. He collaborated on literary youth; The Renaissance; The Orchestra, The Illustrated Weekly. Honorary member of the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics. He gave lectures at the school of jurisprudence in Mexico City. He was the founder of the Lateran Academy, along with his schoolmates, Juan N. Lacunza and Manuel Tossiat Ferrer. Private secretary of President Anastasio Bustamante who appointed him editor of the Official Gazette; He collaborated in El Siglo XIX for 53 years with literary criticism, and between 1843 and 1844 in the magazine El Museo Mexicano, which was later called the Scientific and Literary Magazine of Mexico, and in El Monitor Republicano. Together with Ignacio Ramírez he created the satirical newspaper D. Simplicio, Burlesque, Critical and Philosophical Newspaper, for some Simples, from December 1845 to April 1846. He met in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate. He was General Administrator of the Post Office in 1856, and created a new regulation for the Mexican postal service (the person who received the letter stopped paying the postage). In 1856 he was elected deputy for the state of Puebla and thereafter he represented various states. He collaborated in the Juárez government as Minister of Finance and was one of those in charge of applying the Reform Laws. In 1862 he founded La Chinaca, and in 1863 El Monarca, both satirical newspapers; he was director of the Official Newspaper of the Constitutional Government of the Republic of the government of Juárez. From 1866 to 1867 he went into exile in Texas. In 1884 he participated in the founding of the literary society of El Liceo Hidalgo, and in the magazine of the same name. He wrote plays such as El alférez, a comedy from 1840, Alonso de Ávila from 1842, To my father, The treasury's bride and Homeland and honor. In 1890 he won the contest for the most popular poet in Mexico, ahead of Salvador Díaz Mirón and Juan de Dios Peza. In the book of fifteen (or Notes for the history of the war between Mexico and the United States) fifteen collaborators, including Prieto, wrote about this war. In 1855 he made the Appendix to the Universal Dictionary of History and Geography. UNAM and Conaculta have published and republished various books by the author.
