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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Millares Carló, Agustín (1893-1980)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, España) 1893-08-08 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, España) 1980-02-08

History:

Spanish professor of Paleography that exiled after the Spanish Civil War.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1893. He studied Laws, Philosophy and Arts in the "Universidad Central de Madrid", garduating in 1913. He started to work as assistant teacher and obtained a PhD in 1914. After working in different institutions in 1926, he held the professorship of Paleography in the "Universidad Central de Madrid". In 1934, he was designated Members of the "Real Academia de la Historia". Regarding his political activity, he joined the Republican Action, party in which he run for member of the Parliament in 1931 and 1933. When the Spanish Civil War started, he moved to France and then to Mexico in 1938 as Vice-Consul, and he had to manage the evacuation of the children refugees better known as "Niños de Morelia", the creation of the "Casa de España" and the arrival of the first refugees to the country. In 1939, he was part of the governing board of the "Comité Técnico de Ayuda a los Refugiados Españoles" (CTARE). Since 1939 until 1958, he was teacher of Paleography and Latin Language and Literature in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). When he returned to Spain in 1963, he obtained again his prfessorship of Paleography in the Complutense University of Madrid, but he did not definitely settle in Spain until the death of Franco in 1975. He died in las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1980.

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Date of the event: 1936 - 1939

República Española, 1931-1939

Description: Diputado en Cortes entre 1931-1933. Se le nombra Vicecónsul en México en 1938.

Occupations

Profesores Obs.: de Paleografía, Lengua y Literatura

Diputados between 1931 and 1933

(Función) Desempeña/lleva a cabo/realiza:

Archiveros

(Función) Desempeña/lleva a cabo/realiza:

Catedráticos

Places

Madrid (España) Obs.: Finaliza sus estudios

Lugar de Residencia:

Francia between 1936 and 1938

Lugar de Residencia:

México between 1938 and 1975

Blanco García, Vicente (1906-1975) ( Tiene como aprendiz a/ es maestro de/ es jefe de )

Cabral Hernández, Nicolás (1899-?)

Comité Técnico de Ayuda a los Republicanos Españoles en México ( Es empleado en/trabaja en; Consejero en el ámbito de Educación. )

Gómez Iglesias, Agustín (1902-1977) ( Colabora con )

Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Consuelo (1910-2005) ( Tiene como aprendiz a/ es maestro de/ es jefe de )

Mantecón, José Ignacio (1902-1982) ( Colabora con )

Real Academia de la Historia (España) ( Es miembro de; Es nombrado académico. )

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España, 1970-) ( Es empleado en/trabaja en; Catedrático de Paleografía desde 1963, no la ocupara hasta 1976. )

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( Es empleado en/trabaja en; Impartió clases de Paleografía y Lengua y Literatura Latinas en la UNAM, de 1939 a 1958. )