Salvador de Madariaga
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Salvador de Madariaga | |
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Real Academia Española | |
In office 2 May 1976[a] – 14 December 1978 | |
Preceded by | Emilio Gutiérrez Gamero |
Succeeded by | Carlos Bousoño |
Personal details | |
Born | Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo 23 July 1886 A Coruña, Spain |
Died | 14 December 1978 Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland | (aged 92)
Nationality |
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Other political affiliations | Mont Pelerin Society |
Spouses | Constance Helen Margaret
(m. 1912; died 1970)Emilia Rauman (m. 1970) |
Children | 2, Isabel and Nieves |
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Awards | Charlemagne Prize (1973) |
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (23 July 1886 – 14 December 1978) was an "eminent liberal"[1] Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize[2] and awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 1973.
Background
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was born on July 23, 1886, in A Coruña, Galicia, Kingdom of Spain. He graduated with a degree in engineering in Paris, France.[1][3]
Career
Madariaga returned to Spain and became an engineer for the Northern Spanish Railway Company. At that time, he first came into contact with "Generación del 14" intellectuals.[3]
In 1916, he abandoned that for work in London as a journalist for
In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic appointed Madariaga as Spanish ambassador to the United States and a permanent delegate to the League of Nations; he kept the latter post for five years.
In July 1936, as a
In 1947, he was one of the principal authors of the
In his writing career he wrote books and essays about Don Quixote, Christopher Columbus, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the history of Latin America. He militated in favour of a united and integrated Europe. He wrote in French and German, Spanish, Galician (his mother tongue) and English.
In 1973, he won the
Personal life and death
In 1912 de Madariaga married Constance Archibald, a Scottish economic historian. The couple had two daughters, Nieves Mathews (1917–2003) and professor and historian Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014). Constance died in May 1970. In November 1970, de Madariaga married Emilia Székely de Rauman who had been his secretary since 1938 (who died in 1991, aged 83).[1]
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo died age 92 on December 16 1978, in Locarno, Switzerland.[1]
Awards and recognition
Madariaga received numerous prizes in his lifetime,[3] including:
- Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Spain (1936)[3]
- Hansischer Goethe-Preis, University of Hamburg (1972)
- Charlemagne Prize (1973)
Legacy
The
An Oxfordshire blue plaque in honour of Salvador de Madariaga was unveiled at 3 St Andrew's Road, Headington, Oxford by his daughter Isabel on 15 October 2011.[5]
Works
Madariaga wrote books in Spanish, English, French, and German.
- Selected books
- The Sacred Giraffe: Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval (1925) (science fiction novel)[6]
- Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards: An Essay in Comparative Psychology, Oxford University Press, 1929
- Disarmament, Coward-McCann, 1929
- Anarchy or Hierarchy, Macmillan, 1937
- Christopher Columbus, Macmillan, 1940
- The Rise of the Spanish-American Empire, Hollis & Carter; Macmillan, 1947
- The Fall of the Spanish-American Empire, Hollis & Carter, 1947; Macmillan, 1948
- Bolivar, Hollis & Carter, 1952
- Morning without Noon, 1973
- El Corazón de Piedra Verde, 1942 (Heart of Jade)
- War in the Blood (sequel to Heart of Jade)
- Spain: a Modern History
- Hernán Cortés – Conqueror of Mexico, Macmillan, 1941
- The Blowing up of the Parthenon, 1960
- On Hamlet, Hollis & Carter, 1948
- Latin America, Between the Eagle and the Bear, Praeger, 1962
- Articles
- "Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard," The Atlantic (April 1928)
- "An Admirable Variety: Further Diversities of National Character," The Atlantic (September 1928)
- "Disarmament--American Plan," The Atlantic (April 1929)
- "Spain: The Politics," The Atlantic (March 1937)[7]
See also
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Notes
- ^ Elected on 20 May 1936
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Salvador de Madariaga, Writer, Ex-Diplomat, Dies". Washington Post. 15 December 1978. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Salvador de Madariaga". Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ Stanley G. Payne, Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936 (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 159.
- ^ Plaque
- ^ "Madariaga, Salvador de". Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "search on Madariaga". The Atlantic. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
External links
- Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation Archived 19 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Madariaga tennis Club in A Coruña.
- Madariaga European College.
- Archival sources by and on Salvador de Madariaga can be consulted at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence
- Newspaper clippings about Salvador de Madariaga in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Washington Post obituary