Juan Benito Díaz de Gamarra y Dávalos

Juan Benito Díaz de Gamarra y Dávalos was a Mexican philosopher, priest, and educator associated with the intellectual life of New Spain. As rector and philosophy professor at the Colegio de San Francisco de Sales, he promoted modern European thought through works including *Elementa recentioris philosophiae* (1774), later known in Spanish as *Elementos de filosofía moderna*. His writings helped introduce Enlightenment-era philosophical debates into colonial Mexico.