biography
| name: |
Echegaray (y Eizaguirre), José
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pronunciation:
[aychaygahree ee ayeetha<
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1916)
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| biography:
| Spanish statesman, mathematician, and playwright, born in Madrid, Spain. He taught mathematics, held portfolios in various ministries (1868–74), then won literary fame from his many plays in prose and verse, sharing the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature. He returned to politics as minister of finance (1905), and to science as professor of physics at Madrid University (1905). His masterpiece was El gran Galeoto (1881, trans The World and his Wife). |
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