biography
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Olavarría y Huarte, Eugenio
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pronunciation:
[olavareea ee wah(r)
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1933)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, born in Toledo, C Spain. He joined the Academia de Infantería when he was very young, and after graduating became a professor there. Together with Francisco Martín Arrúe, and by order of General San Román, director of the Academy, he wrote Historia del Alcázar de Toledo (1880). He had published Tradiciones de Toledo (1878), compiling a series of historical legends such as El Cristo de la Luz, Una mujer ingeniosa, El palacio encantado, and El baño de la Cava. He later moved to Madrid and took up journalism. There he met Antonio Machado y Alvarez and collaborated with him in publicising in the local press their intention of founding a folklore society, El Folk-Lore Castellano. The response was immediate, and the Society was officially constituted in 1883. |
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