Manuel Gómez-Moreno | |
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![]() (c.1915) | |
Born | Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez 21 February 1870 Granada, Spain |
Died | 7 June 1970 Madrid, Spain | (aged 100)
Seat T of the Real Academia Española | |
In office 28 June 1942 – 7 June 1970 | |
Preceded by | Isidro Gomá y Tomás[a] |
Succeeded by | Carlos Clavería Lizana |
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain – 7 June 1970 in Madrid, Spain), was a Spanish archaeologist and historian.[1]
Biography
[edit]Martinez was born 21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain. He is the son of noted painter and amateur archaeologist, Manuel Gómez-Moreno González and Dolores Martínez Almirón.[2]
He authored many books, nearly 300, mostly focused on Hispanic archeology and art history.[1] During the first years of the twentieth century he wrote Catálogo Monumental y artístico de España (en: Monumental and Artistic Catalog of Spain).[2][3]
Gómez-Moreno was named Doctor honoris causa by the universities of Montevideo and Oxford in 1941, Glasgow in 1951 and Granada in 1970. One of his students was Hispanic art historian, José María de Azcárate.[4]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Gomá was elected for the position in 1940 but never took the seat
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Manuel Gómez-Moreno". Fundación Rodríguez - Acosta (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez". Royal Academy of History (RAH). 2016. Archived from the original on 14 March 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Ávila". Catálogo Monumental de España. Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás (CSIC). Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural de España. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Azcárate Ristori, José María (1919-2001)". PARES (in European Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2018.