Miguel de Unamuno
1864 – 1936 · aged 72
Spanish poet (1864-1936)
- Born
- 29 Sept 1864 · place not recorded
- Died
- 31 Dec 1936 · Casa del Regidor Ovalle Prieto, Salamanca
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- 29 Sept 1864BornBorn
- 1900 – 1914RoleRector of the University of Salamanca
- 1931 – 1936RoleRector of the University of Salamanca
- 1931 – 1933RoleMember of the Cortes republicanas
- 1932 – 1936RoleMember of the Royal Spanish Academy
- 1933 – 1934RoleMadrilgo Ateneoko presidentea
- 1934AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble
- 31 Dec 1936DiedDied in Casa del Regidor Ovalle Prieto, Salamanca
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1864 – 1936).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
Biography
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo ( OO-nə-MOO-noh, Spanish: [miˈɣel de unaˈmuno i ˈxuɣo, wnaˈmuno j -]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which The Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".
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