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Ballesteros Beretta, Antonio (1880-1949)Other forms
Rome 1880-03-19 - Pamplona (Navarra, España) 1949-07-15
Spanish and Italian historian and americanist. Son of the diplomatic Arturo Ballesteros Contín and María Beretta, the countess of Beretta. After studying with the Jesuits, he graduated in Law from the University of Zaragoza and Philosophy and Arts from the University of Salamanca. He started his legal career, but he gave up studying for his doctorate in History from the Central University of Madrid. He obtained the chair for ancient and medieval History at the University of Seville through competitive examinations and later at the Central University of Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, he hid at the Embassy of México.
His academic interests focused on the historical methodology, the 8th century in Spain, and the History of America, especially the age of discoveries. He was the founder of Institute Gonzalo Fernández of Oviedo (CSIC) and director of the Revista de Indias. He was a scholar of the Real Academia de la Historia.
He was married to the historian and scholar Mercedes Gaibrois Riaño since 1910. They were the parents of the historian Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois and the author Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois. He held the title of Count of Beretta.
Description: Refugiado en la embajada de México
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
Del 9 de noviembre de 1939 al 6 de agosto de 1942 investigó sobre Órdenes Militares en el Archivo Histórico Nacional (A.H.N.) de Madrid.
Portal Historia Hispánica. RAH/ Luis Miguel de la Cruz Herranz