Ramiro de Maeztu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ramiro de Maeztu

Spanish political theorist, journalist, and literary critic

Date of Birth: 04-May-1874

Place of Birth: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain

Date of Death: 29-Oct-1936

Profession: writer, poet, politician, diplomat, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney (May 4, 1875 – October 29, 1936) was a prolific Spanish essayist, journalist and publicist.
His early literary work adscribes him to the Generation of '98.
Adept to nietzschean and social darwinist ideas in his youth, he became close to Fabian Socialism and, later, to Distributism and Social corporatism during his spell as correspondent in London, from where he chronicled the Great War.
During the years of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship he served as Ambassador to Argentina.
A staunch militarist, he became at the end of his ideological path as one of the most prominent Far-right theorists against the Second Republic, leading the reactionary voices calling for a military coup.
Member of the cultural group Acción Española, he spread the concept of "Hispanidad".
Imprisoned by Republican authorities after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was killed by leftist militiamen during a saca in the midst of the conflict.



Description	Spanish mountaineer and photographer
Date of birth/death	15 November 1887	18 February 1972
Location of birth/death	Eibar	Eibar
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