biography
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Martínez y Martínez, Matías Ramón
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pronunciation:
[mah(r)teeneth ee mah(r)<
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| male
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| lived:
| (1855–1904)
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| biography:
| Folklorist and historian, born in Burgillos del Cerro, Badajoz, SW Spain. Also interested in law, linguistics, and philosophy, he studied in Sevilla (1872) where he met Luis Romero y Espinosa and Antonio Machado y Alvarez. He studied philosophy and letters at the Universidad Hispalense and, at the age of 21, obtained his doctorate from the Universidad Central de Madrid with a thesis on the philosophy of Socrates. He later graduated in civil and canon law (1897). Although he practised law, he preferred teaching as a profession, and set up a primary school in Jerez de los Caballeros (1900). He had earlier collected materials in the oral tradition in both Spanish and Portuguese, and in 1881 founded the first regional folklore cell, El Folk-Lore de Burguillos del Cerro, and wrote articles in La Crónica relating to legends about the Indies. His numerous studies relating to Extremadura, appeared mainly in the Boletín Revista del Instituto Provincial de Badajoz (1881–2), El Eco de Fregenal (1881), El Guadiana (1884), La Revista de Extremadura (1899–1904) and the Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia (1898–1905), of which he was academic correspondent. At the time of his death his Historia del reino de Badajoz durante la dominación musulmana (1904–5) was about to be published. |
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