id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6646 Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos - Wikipedia .html text/html 2020 284 62 Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (born Gaspar Melchor de Jove y Llanos, 5 January 1744 – 27 November 1811) was a Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain. In the capital Jovellanos was a respected member of the literary and scientific societies; he was commissioned by the Society of Friends of the Country (Madrid's economic society) in 1787 to write his most well-known and influential work, Informe en el expediente de ley agraria ("A report on the dossier of the Agrarian Law"), a project which he completed in 1794, and published in 1795. In turn, his writings influenced Alexander von Humboldt's thinking and writing on land issues in Mexico.[2] Jovellanos also influenced thinking about agrarian land reform in Mexico in the late period of President Porfirio Díaz's regime by Andrés Molina Enríquez, who was the intellectual father of the article that empowered the State to expropriate land and other resources following the Mexican Revolution Constitution of 1917 [3] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6646.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6646.txt