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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Cossío, José María de (1892-1977)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

Valladolid (España) 1892-03-25 - Valladolid (España) 1977

History:

Spanish writer and bullfighting enthusiast. He was born in Valladolid in 1892. He was the son of Mariano de Cossío Cuesta and Carmen Martínez-Fortún Martínez Talavera. He was the brother of Francisco and Mariano de Cossío and the nephew of Manuel Bartolomé de Cossío.

He graduated in Law from the Universidad de Valladolid and later in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad de Salamanca, where he was a student of Miguel de Unamuno. He enriched the library of the Casona in Tudanca (Cantabria), a family property of the Cossíos.

In 1943, the Espasa Calpe publishing house commissioned him to publish a comprehensive treatise on bulls. Thus, the Tratado Técnico e Histórico Los Toros was born, known as El Cossío, an essential reference work for professionals and enthusiasts, in which his nephew Francisco de Cossío Corral contributed to volumes 8, 9, and 10 of the aforementioned treatise.

Along with his great friend Pedro Salinas, he participated in the establishment of courses that would later form the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) in Santander. He was a member of the Real Academia Española, from which he received the Fastenrath Prize in 1931 for his work Los toros en la poesía castellana. He passed away in Valladolid in 1977.

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Date of the event: 1936 - 1939