biography
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Acevedo y Huelves, Bernardo
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pronunciation:
[athevaythoh ee
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1849–1920)
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| biography:
| Historian and folklorist with an interest in literature, born in Boal, Asturias, N Spain. On the insistence of his father, he moved to Madrid to study medicine, ostensibly as the assistant of Pedro González de Velasco, but after his father's death he abandoned medicine and took up law. He became a lawyer for the Ministry of Finance, and finally a member of the provincial government for Oviedo, which afforded him the leisure to indulge his taste for history and folklore, although he is best remembered for his poetry. During 1885–8 he founded and directed El Boletín del Centro de Asturianos (later El Centro Asturiano) and the newspaper El Carbayón. |
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