biography
pronunciation:
[payreth veedal]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–90)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, born in Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain, with an interest in ethnology and dialectology. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Escuela Real and the Colegio de Santa Catalina de Santa Cruz de La Palma. From the age of fifteen, he showed a great interest in literature. He entered the Universidad de la Laguna in 1925 to read law, the only university course then available in the Canary Is. In 1928, he began his studies at the Universidad de Madrid, and graduated in philosophy and letters and law. He became acquainted with the paleographer A Millares Carló and the folklorist F Rodríguez Marín, collaborating in the first edition of the Códice de San Millán. In 1937, he taught language and literature in the Institut Escola Manuel B Cossió in Sabadell. After the Civil War he taught in the Instituto de Santa Cruz de La Palma, where he assembled, both personally and with the help of his students, ethnographic, folkloric,and dialectal material during his summer visits to the island after he had settled in Madrid in 1948. From 1950 onwards he worked with Julio Caro Baroja in the Museo del Puebla Español, obtaining the post of keeper and secretary of that institution in 1954. After retiring, he continued working from his home in Madrid in the fields of research that he liked: Pérez Gáldos, ethnography, and folklore of the Canary Islands. |
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