Person
Alcalá-Zamora Castillo, Niceto (1906-1985)Other forms
Madrid (España) 1906-10-02 - Madrid (España) 1985-02-20
Spanish jurist and professor. He was the son of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres, president of the Spanish II Republic, and María de la Purificación Castillo de Bidaburu. He got married to Ernestina Queipo de Llano, who was the daughter of the soldier Gonzalo Queipo del Llano. In 1911, he started his academic training at the German School of Madrid. He was awarded the Baccalaureate by the General and Technical Institute of San Isidro (Madrid), and he carried out his degree courses at the universities of Granada and Madrid. In April of 1930, the Council for the Extension of Studies (JAE, the Spanish acronym) approved his studies application.
Some of the most important moments of his career were:
Assistant professor of practical lessons of Criminal Law at the Universidad Central.
Professor of Procedural Law at the universities of Santiago, Murcia and Valencia.
He held the following positions too:
President of the Iberian-American Institute of Procedural Law.
Member of the University School Federation (FUE, the Spanish acronym).
Lawyer of the honourable Bar Association of Madrid.
He was sanctioned by the Order of 29 of July in 1939 and, he took up exile with his wife and their children to France, Argentina and Mexico. He came back to Spain in 1976 and the Autonomous University of Madrid appointed him Professor Emeritus ad honorem and a permanent member of the Ministry of Justice in the General Codification Commission.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
Date of the event: 1922 - 1942
El Archivo Histórico Nacional conserva cartas manuscritas de Niceto Alcalá-Zamora Castillo.