biography
pronunciation:
[kabal]
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| (1877–1967)
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| biography:
| Folklorist and ethnographer, born in Oviedo, NW Spain. He studied at the Seminario Conciliar de Oviedo, but did not attend university because of his family's restricted financial circumstances. He began journalistic work at the Seminario, and contributed several articles on the subject of social justice to journals such as El Progreso de Asturias and La Aurora Social, often under a pseudonym. In search of better economic prospects, he sailed for Cuba towards the end of 1905 and joined the prestigious Diario de la Marina. He wrote its poetry, book and theatre reviews, and reports of events, until he inherited the Spanish life and politics section. On the outbreak of World War 1 he returned to Spain as the Spanish correspondent for his newspaper. Among his well-known historical works are Covadonga (1918), Alfonso II, el Casto (1943) and Las Asturias que venció Roma (1953); and also his biographies of Fermín Canella, Nicolás Rivero, and Armando Palacio Valdés. His ethnographical studies include Del Folklore de Asturias. Cuentos, leyendas y tradiciones (1923), and during 1951–8 he published five volumes of Contribución al Diccionario folklórico de Asturias. The work was never completed and, at his death, he had just prepared another volume, published posthumously in 1984. |
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