Person - Benito, José de (1901-1992)
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Benito, José de (1901-1992)Other forms
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Barcelona (España) 1901-02-23 - 1992
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Spanish Law professor. He was the son of Lorenzo de Benito y Endara, professor of Commercial Law, and Teodora Mampel y Timmermanns. He got married to Carmen Juan. He started his academic training in 1917 with the baccalaureate at the High School of Barcelona. He was awarded a degree on Law by the University of Madrid.
He started his academic career as an assistant professor of Spanish Commercial Law in Spain and the major nations of Europe and America in the Faculty of Law at the Universidad Central in Madrid. He obtained the chair of Commercial Law at the Universities of Murcia, Salamanca, Zaragoza and Valencia.
He was sanctioned in 1937. Due to the Spanish Civil War he was a refugee in France, taking up exile to Colombia in order to move to Mexico in 1942. In 1945, when Juan Negrín resigned as president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic in the exile, the new president José Giral appointed him sub secretary of the Government’s Presidency. He held this position in Mexico and then in Paris up to 1947. Afterwards he worked at UNESCO. He came back to Spain in 1957 and he asked to be reintegrated in the status of professor, which was accepted in 1963 and he held the chair of Commercial Law at the University of Murcia again. He retired as dean in the Faculty of Economic and Commercial Sciences at the University of Valencia.
He held other positions:
Founder of the Republican Action.
Prosecutor at the Court of Auditors (1931-1934).
General Secretary of the National Economy Council (1935-1936).
Representative of the Ministry of Trade and Industry at the Women’s Assistance Commission, delegate of the National Committee of Women Against War and Fascism.
Secretary of the UNESCO in Paris.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
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Diccionario de Catedráticos Españoles de Derecho (1847-1943)