biography
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Filgueira Valverde, Xosé Fernando
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pronunciation:
[filgayra valvair<
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906– )
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| biography:
| Galician historian, born in Pontevedra, NW Spain. Also interested in art, ethnography, archaelogy and literature, he studied law at the Universidad de Santiago (1927) and at Zaragoza, after which he studied history and obtained his doctorate (1936). He taught language and literature at the Instituto de Bachillerato de Pontevedra (1927), was a professor until 1940, then director (1946–76), when he retired. He was elected a member of the Real Academia Gallega (1942) and the Real Academia de la Historia (1981). He has written extensively on archaeology, anthropology, art, literature (the mediaeval Galician-Portuguese lyric, Camoens, and Rosalía de Castro), Santiago de Compostela, and Pontevedra. His own literary output includes poetry and prose. |
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