biography
pronunciation:
[murgeea]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1833–1923)
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| biography:
| Historian, folklorist, and ethnographer, born in Froxel, Arteixo, La Coruña, NW Spain. He was one of the main exponents of galleguismo (the Galician idiom) and of Galician historiography in the 19th-c. He dedicated his early years to studying literature and journalism in Madrid. It was there that he met the poetess Rosalía de Castro, whom he married in 1858. A year later they returned to Galicia where they were both to become protagonists of the cultural and literary Rexurdimento (Renaissance). He concentrated his intellectual efforts on writing his Historia de Galicia (2 vols, 1865–6, 2 vols 1888–9), and also published Galicia (1888). His interest in the folklore and ethnography of Galicia are connected with his work as a historian and his identification with Galician nationalism. He applauded the creation of the Spanish Folklore Society by Antonio Machado y Alvarez and advocated the creation of something similar for Galicia. |
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