Tomás Romay, an eminent Cuban intellectual of the 19th century

Abstract

Introduction: in the Cuba of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first theoretical, scientific, ideological and cultural movement emerged, "La Generación del 92".
Objective: to explain the work developed by Tomas Romay that makes him an eminent Cuban intellectual of the 19th century.
Method: a historical research based on the materialist-dialectical method was carried out. Analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and historical-logical theoretical methods were used. At the empirical level, a documentary analysis of 14 bibliographic articles from different databases was carried out from 2017 to 2018.
Conclusions: Tomas Romay carried out an arduous task within the nineteenth century where he analyzed the Cuban society in different spheres of knowledge, belonging to the first theoretical, scientific, ideological and cultural movement, known as "La Generación del 92", included the Cuban medicine with the introduction of vaccination. The living legacy left by Tomas Romay opens, therefore, the possibility of judging the historical reality through his personal perception.