biography
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Pau Fernández, Ismael del
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pronunciation:
[pow fairnandeth]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1968)
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| biography:
| Folklorist and prehistorian, born in Logroño, N Spain. The Logroño City Council paid for his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. He graduated with distinction in natural sciences in 1911 and became an assistant with a scholarship at the Museo de Ciencias. He obtained his doctorate in 1918. During his training as a naturalist his initial interest was geology and then in pre-history, on which subject he wrote his first articles, published in the Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (1915, 1920). But, from the beginning, he was also interested in geography and ethnography, and published Aspectos etnológico-geográficos de Portugal (1943). He dedicated the greater part of his ethnographic labours to beliefs and superstitions, and most of his contributions to the Sociedad Española de Antropología, Etnografía y Prehistoria, of which he was the founder, dealt with this subject. The second part of his earlier work was published in 1950 with the subtitle Supersticiones españolas y portuguesas (comentarios folklóricos). As a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes y Ciencias Históricos de Toledo, he attempted to create an archive of folkloric material, but was unsuccessful. |
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