The Chair of Agustín Moreno: Psychology and Christian Regeneracionism.

Abstract

Agustín Moreno Rodriguez (1886-1967) was a disciple, at the University of Madrid, of Luis Simarro, professor of Experimental Psychology, and of Tomas Maestre, professor of Medical Law, Toxicology and Psychiatry. He completed Medicine and Natural Sciences degrees and worked as a teacher at schools in Orense, Segovia and Madrid (Institute Cardenal Cisneros). In these schools he shared the classrooms with Eloy Luis André, Antonio Machado and Vicente Aleixandre, respectively. He retired in 1956 and passed away in 1967. In this article we analyze his educational work in the three mentioned schools and his main writings of this period: Elementary Treaty of Hygiene, the Biological Hygiene of the Spanish Student and Biological Meditations. Dr. Moreno constitutes a representative of what we can denominate “Christian Regeneracionism”: an attempt of social and intellectual renovation that tried to conciliate evolutionary biology, christian anthropology and scientific psychology.